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Anyone here ever taken the Defense Language Aptitude Battery?

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AndrewR

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If anyone is looking and cares, it's a test to measure your language learning ability, and they use a fictional language based on English (for the listening part). The reading part is complete gibberish that follows some basic rules that you have to decipher to figure out more gibberish. It's an extremely funky test, and you basically have no idea how you did until they score it.

I guess I'm reasonably proficient because I did pretty well (151 out of 174, need over 100 to be considered for hardest languages [Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Arabic]). Just wondering if anyone else had a similar experience with it.

If anyone can take it, either through ROTC or Reserves or active duty, I encourage you to do so, at least for the experience. It only takes three hours and is at least something to talk about. 😎
 
Originally posted by: andylawcc
what a funky name too.... Defense Lang Apt Battery... ? D-Lab?
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It's commonly referred to as the DLAB, pronounced as you wrote it.

i think it would be easier for me to learn arabic. lol....
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They also monkeyed with the pronounciation of the English words so that if they were saying "train-u" they would roll the "R" or make it sound more like Arabic. Some of the pronounciations sounded Slavic -- I took some basic vocab lessons in Polish, and some of the phrasings sounded just like that. It varied from Slavic to Arabic-like with variations in between.
 
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