At the advanced level, you can string phrases together to create longer sentences. You are beginning to offer opinions more confidently and analyze reading and listening material. Your proficiency will improve as you engage with difficult material and think critically in the target language. Your conversation sessions will help you become comfortable narrating multiple tenses, role-playing complicated scenarios, and speaking about topics of personal and public interest.
In an advanced course, your study sources are longer and more complicated. Use the resources in your syllabus, and any outside sources you find, to challenge yourself in reading and speaking:
For listening practice, continue using resources from your syllabus, and think about any other resource that might be available to you for more practice:
There should be a speaking component of every study session you have. It will be hard to gain more advanced speaking skills if you speak only once per week at your conversation sessions:
You can now ask your conversation partner longer questions in the target language. When appropriate ask your conversation partner their thoughts and opinions on the topics you are covering.
At the advanced level, you can say a lot and understand a lot. Now is the time to ask yourself questions about the gaps in your proficiency and where you want to go from here.
The best way to continue advancing in proficiency is to speak as much as you can in your session. Challenge yourself to use the new structures and vocabulary words you’ve learned as much as possible, and keep exposing yourself to the language at every opportunity.