Distinguished (S 4): Near-Mother-Tongue Proficiency speaking

If you want to speak the language almost like a mother-tongue speaker, you will

• need many years in the speech community, and
• have to work at learning after you can communicate the basics.

Very few people achieve this goal unless they emigrate to another country relatively early in life, but it is possible and is a worthy goal. You need this proficiency if your job requires

• diplomacy
• the ability to express sophisticated nuances of meaning
• the ability to hint at things not directly expressed.

• What you can say at Distinguished level

• Generic module: Distinguished (S 4): Near-Mother-Tongue Proficienc...
• In overview module: Guidelines for setting speaking goals
• In overview module: Guidelines for setting proficiency goals
• In modular book: Managing Your Language Learning Program, by Carol J. Orwig
• In bookshelf: Language Learning

This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 3.5, published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 1999. [Ordering information.]

Page content last modified: 2 September 1998

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