Level 2

Limited Working Proficiency

The candidate can understand and participate in routine conversations about:
*personal background and interests
*current events
*concrete topics
*family
*work
*travel
The candidate can understand and/or produce:
*facts (but not between or beyond the lines)
*casual conversations
*instructions and directions
*concrete descriptions of people, places, and things
*narration about past, current, and future activities
*a resolution for a familiar situation with a complication
Candidate’s level of linguistic accuracy:
*understands and is understandable to a native speaker NOT USED TO dealing with non-native speakers
*some repetition and rewording still necessary to understand and to be understood
*sometimes miscommunicates and is misunderstood