French Reflection Sem 1

How strong do you feel as a communicator at the point in the academic year?

Discuss all 4 criterion (oral, listening, reading, writing)

Oral:

I don't feel too confident for oral, it is because I understand French by now, but I really can't be sure about what to say and hesitate quite a lot. I think this is because I take time to think to make sure what I say is correct, like not say any words I can think of but speaking isn't a good time to stop and think. Hence, I am not too confident in oral, unless I have something to read out, I am quite confident in pronouncing words and reading clearly. I should speak more and more and more in class and also read home wrks out loud or talk French to myself a home.

Listening:

I am very unsure with listening. I think I my listen is that good unless something is speaking word by word in French slowly. It is because that I am still not that thorough with French yet, then if I listen to French people saying normal-speed French, I won't understand though I may be able to pick up a few words. As they connect all the words and all I can hear is a bunch of jammed-up words, and that makes me even not able to hear what I learnt, because they are all jammed up to me. Well, I think all I can do is speak more and listen to myself. Listen very carefully in class and ask teacher new words that I don't get, and listen to recordings online with words to read in front (which is what I found).

Reading:

I am fairly good with reading passages or stories in my French level, which is the class level or maybe a little little bit lower. I understand words and I can pick up words I know, I usually know about 65%-70% and understand. Except the only thing is that I need to know more vocabulary- People don't get some new vocabularies as they haven't learn it yet, same with me, but I may know a little less than them as I just started French. However, I am learning fast and efficient with new vocabularies taught by reviewing, and also picking up new words sometimes. Thus, I am confident in reading and can get a lot better real quick. I should pick up words from homework learn new words when I look them up.

Writing:

I think I am okay with writing. I can take time for writing, and I usually check my grammars or spellings if I know. But there is a limit for me, because sometimes I don't know a word I want to write even if I already know quite many words; because I don't know some prepositions sometimes; because there are verbs like "have huger" that I don't know; because I can't manage to remember all the meanings, and gender, and conjugation, and spellings… of the verbs. I think I need to spend a lot and a lot and a lot of time in review those, and going over old things constantly, and also, asking for new words I don't know how to say. I should also take some words from when I read.