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GuideThe writing mistakes that cap your TCF/TEF Canada score
The costliest TCF/TEF Canada writing mistakes are not grammar. The errors a marker penalises, ranked by how much of your script each one damages.
4 August 2026 · 9 min read
GuideThe connectors that lift a TCF/TEF Canada writing score
Most connecteurs logiques candidates sprinkle in earn nothing. A working set of French connectors for TCF/TEF Canada writing, and where each one pays.
3 August 2026 · 9 min read
GuideThe vocabulary themes the TEF Canada keeps testing (with word lists)
The TEF Canada publishes no vocabulary list, but the same themes recur. The themes worth building lexis around, with a usable word list for each.
2 August 2026 · 10 min read
GuideTu or vous? Getting register right in the TCF/TEF Canada
Register colours a whole answer, which is why a slip caps a band. When the TCF and TEF Canada expect tu, when they expect vous, and how to hold one.
1 August 2026 · 9 min read
GuideTCF Canada expression orale tâche 2: the interaction, worked
TCF Canada tâche 2 is an exchange, not a speech, which is why confident speakers underperform. Phrasing that gives an opinion without sounding rehearsed.
31 July 2026 · 7 min read
GuideTCF Canada expression orale tâche 3: arguing a position
Tâche 3 gives you four and a half minutes and no preparation. A reusable argument skeleton and the move that turns an opinion into scored reasoning.
30 July 2026 · 8 min read
GuideTEF Canada expression orale section B: persuade the other person
In TEF Canada section B the examiner is instructed never to agree with you. How to concede in half a sentence, pivot, and keep pressing politely.
29 July 2026 · 8 min read
GuideHow to sound fluent in the TCF/TEF Canada speaking test
Fluency is not speed, and a memorised script can be marked as low as A1. The fillers, self-corrections and rhythm an examiner hears as real fluency.
28 July 2026 · 8 min read
GuideIs the TEF Canada hard? What actually makes it tough
The TEF Canada is easier than you fear on vocabulary and harder on volume and the French keyboard. Where the marks actually go, section by section.
27 July 2026 · 8 min read