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| mariya Triglot Newbie United States Joined 5646 days ago 7 posts - 12 votes Speaks: French, Russian Studies: German, Italian, English* | Message 1 of 4 16 June 2009 at 9:08pm | IP Logged |
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Good afternoon,
I recently took the CEFR exam for French and received the level of C1 as my result. I am currently a high school student in the US, registering for classes for next year. I am not sure whether to choose French 4, AP French, or French 5. In French 4, we read 'Le Petit Prince' -- already done ! In AP, they read a simplified version of Molière and a simplified Maigret novel. (French 5 is only taken by a handful of people, seniors who did AP French as juniors, and as far as I know, they discuss and analyse current events.) I have read several works by Molière in the original, as well as Gide, a biography of Charlemagne, and I started out with a Petit Nicolas book (all in French). Currently, I'm working on Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (or perhaps I should say Le Prisonnier d'Azkaban), and the only trouble I am having is mostly with magical what-nots -- i.e. Fizwizbiz. I plan to continue studying French during the summer, to take a placement test before school starts, although it would be far less stressful (summer is for relaxing, no ?) to simply present my certificate of C1 on exam day. The question is -- what level would it lead me to ? Thank you very much for your help. Best wishes Mariya Edited by mariya on 16 June 2009 at 9:35pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| dmg Diglot Senior Member Canada dgryski.blogspot.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 7017 days ago 555 posts - 605 votes  1 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Dutch, Esperanto | Message 2 of 4 16 June 2009 at 9:45pm | IP Logged |
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Congrats on your C1 result! I don't know anything about your high school's level, but from your description it sounds like you should be able to take French 5. I'd contact your high school French department and check, though, since they'd have a better idea of where your C1 (which they will recognize, don't worry :) actually drops you. I would bet that most high school students who take French all the way through probably don't manage a C1.
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| RBenham Triglot Groupie IndonesiaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5649 days ago 60 posts - 62 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Indonesian | Message 3 of 4 20 June 2009 at 12:30am | IP Logged |
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To be frank with you, I think you are way above the level of anything you are likely to encounter in high school. Have you thought of taking the DALF C1 or (after more learning) DALF C2? Either of these would fulfil the language requirements for study in France, if you wanted to do that. Americans have a rather bad image as language learners; so having a French language diploma would be a good way to overcome that prejudice if you wanted to work there at some stage too.
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| ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 6148 days ago 2150 posts - 3229 votes Speaks: English*, German, Croatian, Greek, French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Catalan, Persian, Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Ukrainian | Message 4 of 4 14 August 2009 at 4:02pm | IP Logged |
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I am interested in doing something similar, and since you are located in the US, as am I, I was wondering how you went about finding out how to sign up for the test. How did you do it, is what I suppose I'm asking. I'm entering into French 4 this year as a high school sophomore, but already know a bunch of the stuff they teach in level 4 (like the advanced uses of the subjonctif, the conditionnel, etc.). So... Could you enlighten me?
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