Pending requests

Philip Newton philip.newton at gmail.com
Thu Nov 26 14:23:15 CET 2015


On 26 November 2015 at 12:19, Kent Karlsson <kent.karlsson14 at telia.com> wrote:
>
> BUT, I would prefer a scheme based on CEFR
> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_European_Framework_of_Reference_for_Languages#Common_reference_levels,
> http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/linguistic/Source/Framework_EN.pdf).
>
> The A levels are, however, so basic that it is hard to give any new
> information
> (like in a Wikipedia article or a news article/podcast/etc). So for the
> purpose
> of "simplified language tagging" the A levels could be skipped (IMO).
>
> The C2 level, IIUC, isn't quite like "advanced native speaker", but close.
>
> So, instead of "-simple" or "-basic", something along the lines of:
>
>     -levelB1
>     -levelB2
>     -levelC1
>     -levelC2
>
> (referring to the CEFR levels) would be my preference.

How about "-cefrb1 .. -cefrc2" to make it more explicit that "B1" etc.
refer to CEFR levels?

Since it's a European thing, it might not be immediately obvious to
everyone what "B1 level" is.

Cheers,
Philip
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Philip Newton <philip.newton at gmail.com>


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