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  2. Foreign Language Proficiency Pay - Wikipedia

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    FLPB is usually paid on a monthly, bonus basis (installments), but may be paid an annual, lump sum bonuses. The amount of bonus varies based on the category (payment list) of the language, the level of demonstrated proficiency, and possibly the member's occupation (Army or Marine Corps MOS, Air Force Specialty Code (AFSC) or Navy Enlisted Classification (NEC) Code]).

  3. Why It Pays to Be Bilingual - AOL

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    BY LAURA MORSCH, CAREERBUILDER.COM Put a few thousand business executives in a room and you likely won't find many with the same educational backgrounds, industry experience or job descriptions.

  4. BLEU - Wikipedia

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    BLEU (bilingual evaluation understudy) is an algorithm for evaluating the quality of text which has been machine-translated from one natural language to another. Quality is considered to be the correspondence between a machine's output and that of a human: "the closer a machine translation is to a professional human translation, the better it is" – this is the central idea behind BLEU.

  5. Defense Language Proficiency Tests - Wikipedia

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    The Defense Language Proficiency Test (DLPT) is a battery of foreign language tests produced by the Defense Language Institute and used by the United States Department of Defense (DoD). They are intended to assess the general language proficiency of native English speakers in a specific foreign language, in the skills of reading and listening.

  6. Health care jobs are in demand in 2025 — one of the top roles can pay $385,000. The health sector holds many of the best job opportunities for workers in 2025, due to factors like high labor ...

  7. Cognitive effects of bilingualism - Wikipedia

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    To test the protection of bilingualism against Alzheimer's disease (AD), Bialystok et al. (2007) [26] examined hospital records of monolingual and bilingual patients who were diagnosed with various types of dementia. After controlling for various cognitive factors, the researchers found bilinguals experienced later onset of symptoms and were ...

  8. ILR scale - Wikipedia

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    The Interagency Language Roundtable scale is a set of descriptions of abilities to communicate in a language. It is the standard grading scale for language proficiency in the United States's federal-level service.

  9. Multilingualism and globalization - Wikipedia

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    According to the study by Wharton and LECG Europe, acquiring another language has the effect of increasing one's annual salary by approximately 2%. [7] In addition, American military personnel could potentially make up to $1,000 per month if they have a good command of foreign languages, according to Money magazine. [ 7 ]