Last week, I was telling you that I had to take my second-language exam. In the obscure way of rating second-language ability for government employees, there is a five-point rating scale:
x = statistically insignificant
A = basic comprehension
B = intermediate ability
C = fluent
E = exempt from future testing
They measure your ability in three categories – reading, writing and speaking. You have to be tested every five years, unless you get that glorious exemption score. It’s been six years since I’ve been tested, and any future promotions hinge on me getting at least at least a B level across the board. In 2000, I scored a C in reading and a B in writing and speaking.
I got my results from my reading and writing tests. I scored a C in both!! Woo hoo! In fact, I only missed getting my exemption in reading by one point.
So now I go for my oral exam on March 2, and I need to get my B level -and the oral exam is always the hardest part. But I’ll take my CC and run with it! (huge, happy exhalation of breath)
congratulations!!!!
congratulations!!!!
félicitations ma belle!
félicitations ma belle!
Je savais que vous êtes bilingue!
Je savais que vous êtes bilingue!
Yay, Dani! I know very little French (what kind of Cajun am I?!), but I do know ‘laissez le bon ton roulet’!
Yay, Dani! I know very little French (what kind of Cajun am I?!), but I do know ‘laissez le bon ton roulet’!
Félicitations!! Je suis (encore) en train d’obtenir mes niveau C dans touts les critère. J’espere que je vais reussir comme toi. Bon chance pour ton prochaine test.
Félicitations!! Je suis (encore) en train d’obtenir mes niveau C dans touts les critère. J’espere que je vais reussir comme toi. Bon chance pour ton prochaine test.
Yay!
Yay!
Felicitations!!! Bien fait ma belle.
Felicitations!!! Bien fait ma belle.
Oh merde, wrote the meme chose que twinmom without reading first. My bad. But good intention??
Oh merde, wrote the meme chose que twinmom without reading first. My bad. But good intention??
similar minds think alike nancy 😉
similar minds think alike nancy 😉
Good for you!
Good for you!
Another noogie from Marla!
Another noogie from Marla!
Yay!
Yay!
Job well done Dani!
One less thing to worry about!
Job well done Dani!
One less thing to worry about!
Félicitations! Je suis fière de vous, et je suis certain que vous ferez super sur votre test prochain! Portez un turtleneck dépouillé pour la bonne chance! 😉
Félicitations! Je suis fière de vous, et je suis certain que vous ferez super sur votre test prochain! Portez un turtleneck dépouillé pour la bonne chance! 😉
YAY, congrats Dani, I would try my hand at French, but it has been a while, so I think I’ll stick to English for now 😉
YAY, congrats Dani, I would try my hand at French, but it has been a while, so I think I’ll stick to English for now 😉
Awww, thank you all. You are so sweet!! Um, I guess that should be, “Merci”!!
And Nancy, you confused me for a minute there with ‘meme chose’ – my head translated half of it and I almost went to your and Twinmom’s blogs looking for the “a meme thing”, as in bloggy meme.
Guess I still need to practise a little bit more, eh?
Awww, thank you all. You are so sweet!! Um, I guess that should be, “Merci”!!
And Nancy, you confused me for a minute there with ‘meme chose’ – my head translated half of it and I almost went to your and Twinmom’s blogs looking for the “a meme thing”, as in bloggy meme.
Guess I still need to practise a little bit more, eh?
Dani, did you know that the French Canadian or “jouale” equivalent to the ubiquitous canadianism “eh?” would be “lah” dragging on the “a” as one wishes?
For example:
“Quelle bonne pomme, lah!”
“C’est qui çàlaaah?”
“J’en ai assez lah’lah!”
But don’t use that in an oral exam 🙂
Dani, did you know that the French Canadian or “jouale” equivalent to the ubiquitous canadianism “eh?” would be “lah” dragging on the “a” as one wishes?
For example:
“Quelle bonne pomme, lah!”
“C’est qui çàlaaah?”
“J’en ai assez lah’lah!”
But don’t use that in an oral exam 🙂