₦airaland Forum

Ghaliz:
I spent a month doing Duolingo and putting in my notice, I spent over 11 months (A1.1-B2.4) attending Alliance Française (Mon-Fri) 3 hours a day, by the time I was around B1.2 I got a tutor from the same Alliance for 20-30hrs a month, When I started B2 I started light preparation, B2.3 I started it in high gear. I spent a month at the end of class putting everything together.


All in all from Start-Results took 13/14 months.

Wow, that's over a year. Well done!

Ghaliz:
Reussir TCF was highly helpful, one of the reason people including I chose TCF is if you’re lucky more than half the questions are repeats. Reussir is past questions tackled, you should consider a subscription especially in the last 30-60 days pre examination.

I used PrepMyFuture but from what I learnt it’s isn’t everybody’s kettle of fish, I found it incredibly helpful, the thing with PrepMyFuture is the questions are tougher than the actual TCF. It is great if you really want to get in there.

RFI was just the gold standard. It became the soundtrack of my life, while driving, while at home. I did some work but I mostly left it to my subconscious.

The exam is tough but it is also very passable. I saw dozens of people learning French across Nigeria at the High Commission. I wish you good luck.

Thank you for the resources. However long did it take you to learn?

Ghaliz:
Hear me out and I'm going to give it you plainly, the problem with people parsing Gemini is they forget they gave contradictory advice in the past. I seem to remember some odd fellow saying getting retroactive tax returns even if there's nothing legally wrong with it can be misrepresentation. I'll take agents with a pinch of salt, don't pay no one.

There's something I should tell you relatively little weight is given to Nigerian issued documents because everything is easily arranged or forged.

While applying I had a 6-year stretch where I mostly did freelance work, I did pay back taxes when making play for institutional money but there were gaps, significant gaps. Payment for over a decade in your case without proper trails, taxes and salary is highly irregular even in Nigeria's formal sector and difficult to overcome. I eventually used my 2-year work at a Fortune 500 c


That being said you could use your one year of proper teaching jobs as your NOC if your CRS with a year's experience is enough to get you over file everything else under personal experience, the burden of proof isn't as extensive. If that gets you over the line no need to overstretch things. If the one year doesn't get you over the line which I highly doubt you should get every relevant documentation possible, from your boss , clients, legal briefs.

It's going to be hard to claim a legal entity is pretty much paying someone performing legal services essentially under the table. It might come up it might not I'd just say let sleeping dogs lie ADR's tend to extend processing. If you get your French you probably don't even need it .

This is my PERSONAL opinion. I have no expertise in this except one I acquired reading others and doing mine. This is by no means the last word on this

Hi, please what resources did you use to learn French and TCF?