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Read the below descriptions to best determine which
level you place in a foreign language. You will also
take a placement test on arrival but this helps us
better prepare for your stay.
Low Beginner
No practical or functional ability to communicate or
write in the language. Communication limited and generally consists of very few memorized words or phrases. Understanding is
also limited to a few words with very little understanding
of meaning.
Mid Beginner
Communication is limited to a few memorized words and
simple phrases, conjugations, mostly based on basic
needs or common interactions. Ability to understand
basic or common phrases or questions if spoken
slowly. May require the speaker to repeat with
different words to capture simple meaning.
High Beginner
Ability to communicate in a limited capacity in simple
conversation dealing in day to day circumstance using
words, phrases and expressions. Communication contains
long pauses and several tense errors. Vocabulary is
still limited. Speakers often need to repeat for
comprehension to be achieved. Ability to understand or
read commonly used expressions, phrases or messages and
signs.
Low Intermediate
Ability to communicate on a limited level in
basic social settings, statement structures based on
factual circumstance. Communicating with basic
structures and limited vocabulary. Ability to
communicate more comfortably with the present tense and
express basic commands including ordering in
restaurants, asking directions, buying things and
discussing general topics. Ability to understand slower
speech, misunderstandings occur regularly. Ability to
understand the central idea or facts in simple written materials.
Mid Intermediate
Ability to communicate on a basic level in social
situations. Able to respond to questions and interact in
basic conversations in more common themes, personal likes
and dislikes but there continues to be pauses and tense
errors. Ability to understand sentences with less
repetition.
High Intermediate
Ability to comprehend and use with greater accuracy
tenses such as the simple present and future, present progressive and
preterit. Has basic compreshension of the
subjunctive but its use is greatly limited. Communication is
more relaxed and can traverse other themes in social
dynamics. Ability to communicate with larger vocabulary and some irregular verbs.
Advanced Levels
Ability to communicate with grammatical and structural accuracy
in most settings. Ability to participate in topics both
known and unknown, express opinions and hypothesize
and with explanations all in most tenses. Ability to
describe in varying detail any practical, professional, social or abstract idea.
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