Level 1: Elementary Proficiency
- Able to satisfy minimum courtesy requirements.
- Can express elementary needs.
- May experience errors in pronunciation and grammar, but can be understood by a native speaker.
- Can understand simple questions and statements, allowing for slowed speech or repetition.
Level 2: Limited Working Proficiency
- Able to satisfy routine social demands and limited work requirements.
- Can handle most social situations, with limited facility.
- Can handle limited work requirements, but not complications that might arise.
- Have a vocabulary sufficient to express oneself simply with little circumlocutions.
- Have thorough and confident control of grammar.
Level 3: Advanced Professional Proficiency
- Able to speak with sufficient structural accuracy and vocabulary to participate in formal and informal conversations.
- Can discuss particular interest with reasonable ease.
- Comprehension is complete for a normal rate of speech.
- Accent is foreign.
- Control of grammar is good. Errors do not interfere with understanding.
Level 4: Full proficiency
- Able to use the language fluently and accurately on all levels pertinent to professional needs.
- Can understand and participate in any conversation within the range of one's experience with a high degree of fluency and precision of vocabulary.
- Can respond appropriately, even in unfamiliar situations.
- Errors of pronunciation and grammar are rare.
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