[lojban-beginners] Re: measuring language ability: AR611-6

[Thomas White <winterwhite9257@gmail.com>]

Thank you for this resource. After considerable trimming and filtering
of the usual 'important-document' fluff, it really comes down to
sections I to IV of 3-13. I like the system, and its descriptions of
each level of skill being:

00 No Proficiency (06 in-between)
10 Elementary Proficiency (16 in-between)
20 Limited Working Proficiency (26 in-between)
30 General Professional Proficiency (36 in-between)
40 Advanced Professional Proficiency (46 in-between)
50 Functionally Native Proficiency

It makes sense, and makes it relatively easy to situate one's self on
that scale.

For informative entertainment, one passage struck my interest with
regards to lojban:

Level 40 speaking proficiency Examples:

"Can discuss in detail concepts which are fundamentally different from
those of the target culture and make those concepts clear and
accessible to the native speaker."

- That's what I believe lojban could and/or should be used for (among
many). It should be (is?) the "cultural U.N." of languages in which
_concepts_ which are 'foreign' to various interlocutors can become
clear. Neato :)

On 17/11/05, MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com <MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com> wrote:
> In a message dated 11/17/2005 4:22:33 AM Central Standard Time,
> ecartis@digitalkingdom.org writes:
>
>
>
> If anyone wants to know how far they've gotten with lojban, they can:
> * consider how much vocabulary they know and use
> * consider how well they understand written and spoken lojban
> * consider how many grammatical "features" they know and use -- how far
> they've made it through CLL and LFB
>
> It's probably easier to measure yourself than someone else.
>
> mi'e snan
>
> Appendix D of US Army Regulation 611-6 has the criteria the US Army uses to
> measure language ability.
>
> http://www.fas.org/irp/doddir/army/ar611-6.htm
>
> stevo