French?

I did a French spoken exam too and I found it really hard. My vocab was good (I'd made my own flashcards) but I was struggling with phrases. Things like "I wish I had more food". I could say "I want food" or "I would like food" but that doesn't quite mean the same thing.

After I left school, I decided I wanted my French to be better so I spent a lot of time listening to videos of people speaking French (with subtitles) and, although it was difficult at first, the more I did it, the more I realised I was picking up ways of speaking without even realising it.

So, flashcards for vocab. When you've got enough vocab to pick out all the nouns out of a sentence, listening to people speak French gives you the next bit. When I watch French films, I always turn the subtitles off now in case there's a new way of saying something I hadn't heard before. With subtitles I'd probably miss it.