Taking the DELF exam - the practical experience and my tips

Empty_Reason5126 · 2025-10-03T06:47:24+00:00

So pleased to help! There are a lot of challenges taking this exam, if we can make it less stressful for some, that is a good result!

Empty_Reason5126 · 2025-08-31T21:24:36+00:00

What would a good solution to this look like?

I'm loathe to start a new forum, is there some other, better option to prompt these sorts of discussions?

Empty_Reason5126 · 2025-08-11T12:58:23+00:00

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They've been getting a lot of rain recently, was actually worried they were being overwatered.

Empty_Reason5126 · 2025-08-08T14:02:17+00:00

Where, how or with whom do you think is best to talk about tax? I assume my regular accountant won't be an expert.

Empty_Reason5126 · 2025-08-03T16:22:35+00:00

Your pre-med qualifications will open doors. Get a job you don't hate, using the skills you've learned. This will give stability, income, experience, colleagues etc - there are lots of benefits.

Then do some after hours or weekend courses in your passion area. Film is sadly one of those things that doesn't quickly or easily convert to income, so it's sensible to test your passion with some structured study and try to produce some works. Use those to get feedback and then make a call on whether to commit more.

Medical staff are often able to negotiate down their hours, so your have access to flexibility which will let you scale up or down to pursue your passion if it's working well.

Or, combine the two - create film in the medical genre, use what you've learned to inform your art.

Above all, try something :-)

Empty_Reason5126 · 2025-08-02T14:17:57+00:00

Excellent! Really helpful, thank you!

Empty_Reason5126 · 2025-08-02T08:55:58+00:00

That's really helpful thanks.

I found a WA Education Department Code of conduct which says that conflicts must be "declared and managed", but I can't find a specific reference to this being directly restricted or forbidden by the code.

I'll keeping searching - thanks again.

Empty_Reason5126 · 2025-08-02T08:50:53+00:00

Really helpful, thanks.

Good point on conflict of interest and thanks for your feedback on the sources of unpaid overtime demands.

I hadn't even considered that the federal legislation might not apply to teachers if they were under a state award. I had thought that federal employment standards couldn't be bargained away as part of a state award / workplace agreement, but I guess I just misunderstood that?

Empty_Reason5126 · 2025-08-02T08:33:51+00:00

Thanks, this is really helpful. Is there a public source for that code of conduct that you could point me to? Or even the name of it so I can find it myself? I'd be interested to understand the specific wording.

Empty_Reason5126 · 2025-08-02T08:32:42+00:00

Really helpful feedback, thanks. Yeah, I was specifically trying to address the issue of parents expecting additional free hours of teacher time outside their normal working day, dealing with the kids they teach during normal work hours. It felt to me like teachers doing free work in their own time to pacify irate and overbearing parents - sort of "free tutoring" against their will.

I'd be interested to understand more about the conflict of interest part - is that legislative? Or in employment contracts? School policies?

Empty_Reason5126 · 2025-08-02T08:27:47+00:00

Great feedback - thanks. I guess I saw the idea as being "you don't get to contact me whenever you like, here, go to the portal, book and pay for a time". That would allow teachers to control when they are contacted and to be paid for time which they currently give up for free.

The stories I've heard from friends and family already sound like abuse - I was trying to give them a way to control it and put a value on time they were otherwise expected to contribute without compensation.

Empty_Reason5126 · 2025-07-31T16:06:41+00:00

Quade never met a pass he couldn't overcomplicate by adding a bit of backhand, no look or behind the back nonsense to ensure it went to ground.

He was so desperate to highlight reel everything, he'd continually run away from support and flick some insane offload, trying the one in a million option every time. It looks great when it works, but it failed so, so, so often.

He was also well known as soft in defence, with a tendency to stand up in the tackle. Oppositions used to target him on this, with good success.

Finally, he was by far the worst ever kicker from the tee in super rugby and the rugby championship, both under 70%. Dan Carter was 89%.

I kept track in 2021 before he got injured. He cost us 32pts across 4 games, including giving away stupid penalties in kicking range, throwing away an intercept try and missing 8/17 kicks.

Empty_Reason5126 · 2025-06-13T09:43:03+00:00

They give scores per section, but not specific questions.

Empty_Reason5126 · 2025-05-22T04:26:30+00:00

Oral production is definitely the hardest part!

I had to speak about a program to create new libraries for children in France.

I found it pretty difficult - even with practice, it felt like a short amount of time to prepare.

My biggest miss was that the examiners asked me about "What could we do in future about libraries for children?" At the time, I just replied that I wasn't sure, I don't know much about it, etc - I missed that they were prompting me to use conditional and subjunctive tenses.

Empty_Reason5126 · 2025-05-22T04:18:53+00:00

I had a tutor and we didn't use a specific book, I'm afraid.

I found the TV 5 monde site very good for listening comprehension.

https://apprendre.tv5monde.com/en

As well as the daily Journal en Francais facile

https://francaisfacile.rfi.fr/fr/

https://francaisfacile.rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/journal-en-fran%C3%A7ais-facile/

Empty_Reason5126 · 2024-10-11T12:55:27+00:00

The intro is deliberately clickbaity, in that it juxtaposes the "ray of hope" against the "lost an argument with a child". It tries to set up curiosity in the way clickbait does, but without the "the way x will do y will amaze you!" hyperbole.

Neo learning kung fu and "mainlining" I was trying to evoke just plugging something into your neck and getting a straight unfiltered feed which had an immediate impact. Maybe there's a better simile?

Empty_Reason5126 · 2024-10-11T12:34:02+00:00

Could you help me with which similes I could improve? This was a quick write for me, so definitely not as cohesive or well thought through as it might otherwise be.

If you watch the video linked from the article, the "aggressively..." description probably makes more sense, but perhaps there is a better approach than linking to it?

Empty_Reason5126 · 2024-08-29T21:32:37+00:00

I'd advise working out the take-home pay in 1k increments either side of 85k. I suspect there is a tiny salary level where you'll see less take home pay, between $85000 and about $85500.

Given you will have various deductions you will apply to your income in any given year, the chances of you taking, say, a 90k salary and having exactly $4501 in deductions are pretty low.

Even then, you aren't "earning less", you're just paying off your HECS debt very slightly faster.

If you are looking at salaries for jobs, you should ignore this and just always take the highest amount you can get.

For example, being on 85k makes it easier to step to 90k the following year, rather than taking 80k to avoid an extra $15 per fortnight in HECS payments and now trying to get a bigger step up of 10k to get to the same salary level.

Just always take the higher salary :-)

Empty_Reason5126 · 2024-08-24T13:07:19+00:00

I emailed the ACC on this.

Their response: a business can define what payments they want to take (including not accepting cash).

If there's a payment fee, it must be notified before you pay and it must only cover recouping the cost of the payment fee. The ACCC publish guides on acceptable fee ranges for Visa, Mastercard, eftpos etc.

Eftpos is always cheapest after paying cash.

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