B2 listening: main idea & speaker stance
P44.b2-listening.01 · Audience: guest, language-pro, it-ml
The DELF B2 compréhension de l'oral rarely asks "what word did you hear?". It asks what the speaker is doing: taking a position, conceding a point, hedging a refusal. The information is real but wrapped — in disons que, in ce n'est pas… c'est…, in a compliment that sets up a criticism.
Two habits earn most of the marks here:
- Catch the frame before the details. The first sentence usually announces what kind of move is coming (a nuance, a rebuttal, a report). Details only make sense inside it.
- Track stance markers. Certes… mais, franchement, j'aurais aimé que… — these small words carry the speaker's attitude more reliably than the content words around them.
Play each extract — the transcript stays hidden until you answer, like the exam — and choose the best reading. Wrong options here are designed the way DELF designs them: literally true words, wrong interpretation.
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