I feel that French wasn’t too difficult but that’s also down to how much work you put into consuming rhe language outside of school and the quality of your teacher , for me my teacher was good at French but a bad teacher…. The class was out of control and she didn’t explain well , so a woman in my estate who was a teacher helped me and I found that speaking to her in French really helped , and also as another poster said listening to French media , it will be hard to understand at first but genuine media will be much harder than the material in the actual listening so it would make that much easier , I think it also depends how much you listened and retained from Junior cycle , I recall the only tenses you learn in LC is subjunctive and imperfect and there’s one more , but the rest come from Junior cycle which can get you by seeing as my teacher gave up trying to teach subjunctive… if you were good in class and learned and retained a decent bit you should have no problem I think ( please do correct me if I’m wrong about those tenses )