Madeline, je pense qu'il faut essentiellement écouter BEAUCOUP... de préférence des choses que tu comprends assez bien, puis tu augmentes le niveau de difficulté. Il y a beaucoup de ressources gratuites sur internet! Il y a aussi des aspects de la prononciation familière qu'il est important de comprendre. Je pourrais t'aider avec ça! Il faut surtout comprendre les phénomènes suivants: la chute du "e" muet, les enchaînements et les liaisons. Aussi, il y a des aspects de la syntaxe familière qu'il faut connaître, comme l'omission du "ne" dans la négation ("j'sais pas" au lieu de "je ne sais pas"). Enfin, il faut essayer de comprendre le message principal, même si on ne comprend pas tous les détails. Bonne chance! :)

What you really need to do is to pin down Olivier and get him to talk to you. Forget the apps and the radio. Talk to the real thing David

You can improve your listening comprehension with two types of materials. Either learning materials or real materials. If you are not comfortable with real speakings, concentrate your efforts on easy stuffs. Write what you understand as you understand even words that you don't catch. In that case write something even if that's don't mean anything. After correct yourself with the transcript. When your level is improved, you can start the same thing with real speakings. Firstly news on TV or France Info, after other broadcasting and French speaking youtubers and finally movies, series and real life. That takes times and you're going to reach different levels. You can firstly use the podcasts on this website : http://www.podcastfrancaisfacile.com . I don't know if better poadcasts are available in French. Personally I started to listen to ESL Podcast to learn English and I couldn't understand anything. Now that's easy, I can understand them almost 100% but I still have difficulties with some movies.

Any listening to french radio and tv is very helpful :)

Hi, I'm also learning French I've been practicing on a mobile App I downloaded on my android its called Duolingo its free; you can download it on the play store on your cellphone and it does help you practice it has a little of everything, if you'll like try it out good luck! :)