Level 1
| The candidate can understand and participate in very simple conversations about: |
| *personal welfare and survival on a day-to-day basis |
| *basic needs such as meals, lodging, transportation, simple directions |
| *simple daily life and routine travel arrangements |
| *requests for services such as ordering a simple meal, renting a hotel room, etc. |
| The candidate can understand and/or produce: |
| *simple questions and answers in face-to-face conversation in a standard dialect |
| *main ideas |
| *ordinary courtesy requirements |
| *can create with the language |
| *questions about daily life & routine travel |
| *short conversations |
| Candidate’s level of linguistic accuracy: |
| *requires repetition, rewording, slower than normal speech |
| *strong interference from native language |
| *makes errors in simple structures |
| *has limited vocabulary |
| *has poor pronunciation, but makes some distinction in stress and intonation |
| *intelligible to native speakers USED TO dealing with non-native speaker |
| *interlanguage may dominate |
| *Little precision in information understood |