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The following is a non-exhaustive list of standardized tests that assess a person's language proficiency of a foreign/secondary language. Various types of such exams exist per many languages—some are organized at an international level even through national authoritative organizations, while others simply for specific limited business or study orientation.
Portuguese and Spanish, although closely related Romance languages, differ in many aspects of their phonology, grammar, and lexicon. Both belong to a subset of the Romance languages known as West Iberian Romance , which also includes several other languages or dialects with fewer speakers, all of which are mutually intelligible to some degree.
Despite the fact that Portuguese is the official language of Brazil and the vast majority of Brazilians speak only Portuguese, there are several other languages spoken in the country. According to the president of IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics) there are an estimated 210 languages spoken in Brazil. 154 are Amerindian ...
The exception is the DLIELC (Defense Language Institute English Language Center), which assigns a + designation for failure/inconsistency at the next higher level. Grades may be assigned separately for different skills such as reading, speaking, listening, writing, translation, audio translation, interpretation, and intercultural communication.
Students taking the exam in Brasília.. Exame Nacional do Ensino Médio (Portuguese pronunciation: [eˈzɐ̃mi nasjoˈnaw du ẽˈsinu ˈmɛdʒi.u]; English: National High School Exam), shortened as Enem (Brazilian Portuguese:), is a non-mandatory, standardized Brazilian national exam, which evaluates high school students in Brazil. [1]
A distinctive trait of Portuguese grammar (shared with the Galician language and Sardinian) is the existence of infinitive verb forms inflected according to the person and number of the subject: É melhor voltar , "It is better to go back" (impersonal) or "It is better [that] I go back"
Several Brazilian universities follow the FUVEST (University of São Paulo's entry exam) pattern, which is divided into two stages or "phases". The first stage consists of 90 multiple choice questions, including subjects such as Portuguese Language, Portuguese Literature and Brazilian Literature; Math, History, Geography, Biology, Physics, Chemistry and Foreign Language.
CELPE-Bras (Portuguese: Certificado de Proficiência em Língua Portuguesa para Estrangeiros, "Certificate of Proficiency in Portuguese for Foreigners") is the only certificate of proficiency in Brazilian Portuguese as a second language officially recognized and developed by the Brazilian Ministry of Education.