Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6607 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish
| Message 1 of 4 14 March 2013 at 1:52pm | IP Logged |
Just curious:) In a Russian grammar nazi comm someone posted a Ukrainian guy's CV. He's worked in wholesale trade and has an A2 in Mandarin and also knows some Polish, Bulgarian, Arabic and German. (but his written Russian is just horrible, so people are like, "why doesn't he learn one language well instead?", ugh) I wonder if the A2 certificate means he knows the Chinese characters? I know that with languages that use alphabets reading and writing are normally an essential part of any certificate exam, but are there any serious tests for, say, Mandarin or Japanese that are oral only?
Kinda sad how only a few people realize that although he can't write well even in one of his strongest languages (not sure whether native or not), it doesn't mean he can't have quite decent oral skills for his needs.
Edited by Serpent on 14 March 2013 at 2:23pm
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freakyaye Senior Member Australia Joined 4848 days ago 107 posts - 152 votes
| Message 2 of 4 14 March 2013 at 4:09pm | IP Logged |
A2 is a pretty low level. He may know some characters but probably not more than 120-200.
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dbag Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5032 days ago 605 posts - 1046 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 3 of 4 15 March 2013 at 1:26am | IP Logged |
What is a "Russian grammer nazi comm" ? Just curious!
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Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6607 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish
| Message 4 of 4 29 March 2013 at 1:27pm | IP Logged |
"лучше_молчи" :) The link points to my posts there, which are basically a surprisingly complete "portrait" of me :D
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