B2 listening: detail, implication, register

The harder half of the B2 listening épreuve: items where the answer is a specific condition buried in administrative phrasing, an implication the speaker leaves hanging, or a judgement about register — is this voice familiar, neutral, ironic?

What to train:

• Conditions and exclusions. À l'exclusion de…, sauf…, dont le bail a été signé après… — B2 loves eligibility rules. Slow the mental replay at every restrictive word.
• What is meant but not said. Avant que quelqu'un d'autre décide à ma place is not small talk; it is information about power slipping away.
• Register as signal. Ouais alors… comment dire… tells you familiar-critical before any content arrives; un tarif pédagogiquement élevé is irony doing the work of a confession.

Same protocol: audio first, transcript after, distractors built from words you really heard.

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