P44 · Listening & Ear Training

B2 listening and the sounds that carry French grammar

Perception seeds production: train the ear on the contrasts and joins French grammar lives in, then work the real B2 listening item types — the axis where an immersed learner usually banks marks fastest.

Perception comes before production: the sounds you cannot yet tell apart are exactly the ones you cannot yet say, and the word-joins you cannot hear are where fast French loses you. P44 trains both — minimal-pair ear training on the vowel and nasal contrasts Russian does not have, join-spotting for liaison, élision and enchaînement, then the real DELF B2 listening item types: main idea and stance first, detail, implication and register second.

Audio is served from pre-rendered clips — thousands of them, matched to the exact text of an item by content hash — with your browser's French voices kept only as a fail-soft fallback when a clip is missing. For a typical immersed learner this axis is a quick win: the diagnostic decides, and every set you complete here feeds your CO readiness in the weekly review.

Perception before comprehension: a contrast you cannot hear is one you spend the next clause guessing at.

Ear Training

B2 Listening