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For what definition of professional or proficiency does one achieve "general professional proficiency" in French in 24 weeks...
by helaoban 2y ago
For what definition of professional or proficiency does one achieve "general professional proficiency" in French in 24 weeks...
- coev 2y agoProficient enough for a diplomat to go to the host country and not cause an international incident.
- austinl 2y agoThe Foreign Service Institute training is also full-time, 8+ hours a day, working with dedicated tutors in small groups. Basically, it's your job to learn the language.
- ghaff 2y agoThis isn't taking a semester of high school language instruction or playing with Duolingo for six months. It's basically doing nothing else during working hours and maybe homework for over half a year in what would have probably been close to a $100K crash course.
- pessimizer 2y agoThey mean 24 weeks in a residential, 24 hour a day program, where you sign an oath never to speak in anything but the target language, and which is largely attended by people in the armed forces whose career will be affected by their performance. The level is probably about B2/C1, and they expect these people to immediately go to work in the language. English shares a lot of vocabulary with French, so that's a lot less for English speakers to learn.
- sn9 2y agoThese are the estimates for how long it takes to reach the FSI "Speaking 3: General Proficiency in Speaking (S3)" and "Reading 3: General Professional Proficiency in Reading (R3)", which I understand to mean roughly B2 in the CEFR scale.