<p>I said one word into the timed speaking test on the computer in class. One word!!
I couldn’t think as to how to start it.
I have a 98 percent in that class and know all the vocabulary and can write an essay, but cant speak it!</p>
<p>What level are you in. Aren’t you required to speak french daily in class?</p>
<p>If your in level one, I wouldn’t worry TOO much. If your higher, there is a problem.</p>
<p>-girl in French 3 honors</p>
<p>This is my sixth year studying French and I still have problems speaking it!! </p>
<p>It truly is quite hard to blurt stuff out on the spot. It’ll take some time and practice. Volunteer in class as much as you can because in all sincerity, you’ll only get better if you practice, practice, practice. Even if you don’t know the answer or don’t know what to say, just do it. You have to charge headfirst into the unknown and try your best to navigate your way through. It’ll get easier the more you get used to the language. </p>
<p>Bonne continuation!</p>
<p>im in my fifth year of french, and i still can’t pass a frickin speaking test. whenever we have substitutes, they’re always like “oh you guys must be fluent, by now” and the whole room’s like (• ε •) no</p>
<p>but otherwise i still have a 96% so clry speaking does not matter. unless you actually wanna go to france and actually speak the language. like if i go to france, i have to carry around a whiteboard and marker</p>
<p>^ that’s not necessarily true!! They say that by actually going to France, you acquire the language by osmosis. Everyone around you is using it and that’s all your hear and can use, so your ear and brain will grow accustomed to it. And since you’ve had formal education with the grammar concepts, it’ll help you speak. </p>
<p>I’m hopefully getting over to France this summer for a study abroad trip, so I guess I’ll see if that actually works!! :)</p>
<p>I really wanna learn how to speak the language, but we havent ever practiced speaking french at all! Never not one activity. We wrote paragraphs abit and did vocab, but NO speaking practice.
I am in French 2, and I was having a bad day and my mind probably wasnt working</p>
<p>Lol. I’m in intermediate college French, and today we were having this intellectual discussion about the housing crisis amongst French university students. Our book had a long reading about the different kinds, and this one was this really cramped studio apartment type thing with 25 squared meters and glass windows everywhere (looked completely awful, IMO). </p>
<p>Anyway, my prof singled me out and asked (in French) “do you think this is something we could adopt here? What’s your say?” </p>
<p>Panicking, the only thing I could think of saying was "euh, pas ici, mais peut-</p>
<p>@harvestmoon, i could totally respond like that. the thing is… for some reason, i can’t understand spoken french. i can understand my teacher only sometimes, and when we’re doing activities with actual native speakers and they speak like a mile a minute without breathing i’m like wat the wat</p>
<p>and then when i respond, i make a bunch of mistakes. it’s like the same as writing down a sentence, and then erasing the mistakes. but when speaking, you have to get it right, right on the spot.</p>
<p>@haradonia: my french teacher is okay if we have to lie, in order to answer the question lol
but literally, my teacher just does exercises out of the book, and she calls on us to answer the questions out loud. i mean, that’s not the best way ever, but your teacher doesn’t even do that?</p>
<p>I know the feeling, clementines!! But be grateful that you’re getting used to that now. I didn’t experience it until last year when I first started college, so I was waaay behind. At least you’ll already be kind of used to it! </p>
<p>Also, one part of our tests at my uni is just based on the native speakers, which sucks. On Wednesday we have our listening component of the exam. My prof will play the French people jabbering about whatever they’re jabbering about and we’ll have to answer free response questions about them. (what do you think so-and-so meant? What did they imply? How were they feeling? What are at least 3 things he said about the grocery store? Blergghh!) </p>
<p>Listening to French music actually helps a lot. If you have an android or iPhone, I’d recommend downloading tunein. I favorited various different French radio stations for a variation of accent, and it’s so cool that I can practically understand them most of the time! It really builds your confidence.</p>