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| 1e4e6 Octoglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4289 days ago 1013 posts - 1588 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Norwegian, Dutch, Swedish, Italian Studies: German, Danish, Russian, Catalan | Message 1 of 4 28 June 2013 at 5:21am | IP Logged |
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When learning a language for both knowledge (as high as one can possibly reach), but
also having in mind a certain goal of a level, for example B2, for immigrating to a country to pass either their citizenship test or their professions language entrance test, should one always study for passing the tset, or simply study the language and then only after reaching the highest level possible for that time period, then switch into studying to pass the test? Example would be the NT2 in the Netherlands, which if I remember correctly, is equivalent to something like a B2 level, although I do not think the test has the same tasks as the CEFR exam. Québec also has its own immigration office separate from the rest of Canada, which is handled I think by CIC and Québec by the Quebec Immigration Office. In other words, would it be better to study for only the skills tested in those exams, and then after passing, continue to as high a level as possible, or the opposite, to keep studying to as high a possible a level, and then go back to study for the test in the hope that the test should therefore be easier in this order? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5008 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 2 of 4 28 June 2013 at 5:34am | IP Logged |
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And what about preparing for the B2 test when your skills are about that level and than smootly continuing?
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| 1e4e6 Octoglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4289 days ago 1013 posts - 1588 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Norwegian, Dutch, Swedish, Italian Studies: German, Danish, Russian, Catalan | Message 3 of 4 28 June 2013 at 9:10am | IP Logged |
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That is also possible, but I think since the citizenship language proficiency tests do
not correlate with the aspects tested in the CEFR exams is the problem. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5008 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 4 of 4 28 June 2013 at 12:15pm | IP Logged |
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Depends on where you want to go as we have already discussed elsewhere. The best you can do is to narrow the choice to a few and get to know what do they require.
And if those tests do not correlate with aspects tested in the CEFR than why do you even mention it btw? Just get info about the tests that are relevant to you, get a few past tests, every now an then look at them (perhaps every halfyear or so) to see whether you are getting close to that level. When you are getting close, prepare for the tests and when you pass, return to your own trajectory, richer with the experience. There must be enough information for every official test. When you cannot find it, than there must be people whose job it is do give you the information. But the key is to narrow your choices and look specifically for a few. Getting such info about half a continent + Canada might take too much time that would be better spent on the language in my opinion. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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