Compréhension Orale
Also known as: TEF listening · TCF listening · French listening section
Compréhension Orale is the listening section of TEF Canada and TCF Canada. Candidates listen to audio recordings — dialogues, announcements, interviews, radio segments — and answer multiple-choice questions testing comprehension of explicit information, gist, speaker intent, and inference.
TEF Canada Compréhension Orale
60 questions, 40 minutes. Mix of short dialogues, longer monologues, and authentic-style media segments. Scored 0-360.
TCF Canada Compréhension Orale
39 questions, ~35 minutes. Progressive difficulty from beginner to advanced. Scored 0-699.
How to prepare
Practice with audio at native speed (not slowed-down learner content). Focus on regional accents — both Metropolitan and Quebec French appear in TEF/TCF.
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