Posted on Jan 23, 2022
How do you schedule a DLPT exam? Also is there a DLPT for Kirghiz / Kyrgyz?
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How do I schedule a DLPT?
I am thinking of studying a language in order to get the Foreign Language Proficiency Bonus. The latest Strategic Language List I could find (dated 13 November 2019) mentions Kirghiz as an "Emerging Language Authorized for all PMOS/Branches.
However, I cannot find any documentation on how to schedule and take a DLPT, once I have learned a language. The documentation regarding Kirghiz language proficiency is even more limited. My fear of that I will take the time to study something and then be unable to capitalize on my success.
Can anyone provide insight, documentation or at least some advice on how to schedule a DLPT once proficiency in a language? Offhandedly if anyone knows if there is even a test for Kirghiz I would like to know that as well. Thanks!!
I am thinking of studying a language in order to get the Foreign Language Proficiency Bonus. The latest Strategic Language List I could find (dated 13 November 2019) mentions Kirghiz as an "Emerging Language Authorized for all PMOS/Branches.
However, I cannot find any documentation on how to schedule and take a DLPT, once I have learned a language. The documentation regarding Kirghiz language proficiency is even more limited. My fear of that I will take the time to study something and then be unable to capitalize on my success.
Can anyone provide insight, documentation or at least some advice on how to schedule a DLPT once proficiency in a language? Offhandedly if anyone knows if there is even a test for Kirghiz I would like to know that as well. Thanks!!
DLPT
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DLPTs are scheduled at a military education and testing center, it's a DOD test so you can take it at any branch education center.
You aren't going to get paid for a language unless you're a 2/2 speaker and reader, that means you are functionally fluent in the language. To give you an idea of what that means, people who attend the Defense Language School for a year, eight hours a day, fully immersed in the language with no English spoken in the classroom, are only expected to reach a 2/2 after 12-15 months in the course. Studying an obscure language for 1-2 years might not be worth the investment in time
You aren't going to get paid for a language unless you're a 2/2 speaker and reader, that means you are functionally fluent in the language. To give you an idea of what that means, people who attend the Defense Language School for a year, eight hours a day, fully immersed in the language with no English spoken in the classroom, are only expected to reach a 2/2 after 12-15 months in the course. Studying an obscure language for 1-2 years might not be worth the investment in time
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I took the one for German in the early 1980s, I went thru the BN Training NCO.
Probably not the same today.
Probably not the same today.
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I would ask superiors and if that fails go to the organization that gives out language tests. I don't about the utility of Kirghiz in regard to the army. I found the test pretty difficult and failed miserably. In the test they start making up words and you have to understand and track them. Taking the test does not mean you will automatically be afforded a chance to learn another language as most people fail the initial test.
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MAJ Ken Landgren No worries sir. I've been reading more army And for the record that DLAB test gave me a migraine for an entire day, I agree it was probably the hardest test I've ever taken in my life
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