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The Speaking test assesses grammar, vocabulary, organization, substance, and style. The G-TELP Speaking Test takes approximately 30 minutes to complete. The test has about 30 questions and a score range between Level 1 and Level 11, with test takers grouped into eleven proficiency levels for Speaking. [11] [12]
Most difficult language to learn → — Relisted. --rgpk 20:46, 4 April 2011 (UTC) I think difficulty is more appropriate than most difficult because there doesn't seem to be agreement in the literature about which the best way to measure difficulty is, let alone which language is the most difficult. If we imply that there is a "most difficult ...
The Modern Language Aptitude Test (MLAT) was designed to predict a student's likelihood of success and ease in learning a foreign language. It is published by the Language Learning and Testing Foundation. The Modern Language Aptitude Test was developed to measure foreign language learning aptitude. Language learning aptitude does not refer to ...
A tonal language oriented towards women; created to test if natural languages are biased towards men. Lojban: jbo 1987 Logical Language Group Logical and syntactically unambiguous language; successor of Loglan. Toki Pona: tok 2001 Sonja Lang: Minimalist language with 120–137+ words, with over 1600 speakers. [2] [3] Kēlen: 2009 Sylvia Sotomayor
The theoretical foundations for what became known as the contrastive analysis hypothesis were formulated in Robert Lado's Linguistics Across Cultures (1957). In this book, Lado claimed that "those elements which are similar to [the learner's] native language will be simple for him, and those elements that are different will be difficult".
Chinese is rated as one of the most difficult languages to learn for people whose native language is English, together with Arabic, Japanese and Korean. [28] According to the Foreign Service Institute, a native English speaker needs over 2,200 hours of intensive study, taking 88 weeks (one year and about 8 months), to learn Mandarin. [29]
Language complexity is a topic in linguistics which can be divided into several sub-topics such as phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic complexity. [1] [2] The subject also carries importance for language evolution. [3] Language complexity has been studied less than many other traditional fields of linguistics.
English is the third-most spoken native language, after Mandarin Chinese and Spanish; [8] it is also the most widely learned second language in the world, with more second-language speakers than native speakers. English is either the official language or one of the official languages in 57 sovereign states (such as India, Ireland, and Canada).