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Chinese Proficiency Test? Anyone take it?

UncleWai

UncleWai

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So I've been in the United States for too long and my university says I need to take a Chinese proficiency test to waive my foreign language requirement. For god sake I speak Cantonese better than English, if I have to take a second language test, it would be English.

How hard can this be? I just worry about the writing portion because I can't write Chinese. But I can read and type Chinese with ease.
I am Cantonese and will have to take a Mandarin test.
They don't ask bo po mo fo kind of questions right?



 
Theres a lot of listening involved in the test according to some of my friends. I speak cantonese and decided not to take the test because mandarin=the devil and I had one really crappy teacher. Im sure theres some writing in there so if you arent fluent in Mandarin I don't recommend taking it.
 
I kinda have to take it, or I will have to take 1 years worth of foreign language.
I can listen to mandarin with ease, but if they ask those bo po mo fo linguistic questions, I would be fvcked.
I guess if I fail Chinese, I will try Spanish.

 
i dont understand, why not take the test for spanish and let spanish be your meal ticket out of lang. requirements?

also, don't think look at your highschool transcript to see you took three years of espanol, and validate you that way without any further tests?
 
I learned Mandarin about 15 years ago, but I never had to take a Chinese Proficiency Test other than the tests that the Army gave me (Defense Language Proficiency Test, or DLPT). We had reading, listening and speaking on our test, but yours may differ.

If you've got three years of Spanish under your belt, I'd suggest taking the Spanish exam. Afterwards, even if you fail, you'll probably know what kind of questions you'll be asked on one of their proficiency tests so you'll be better able to gauge whether you'd be able to pass the Mandarin proficiency exam.

Good luck!
 
It will consist of reading comprehension, writing in chinese, translating chinese to english, vice versa.
I just want to know if the test will stress on the pronounciation of the Chinese words in writing.

oh, and I am a Junior now, I haven't touched spanish for three years, so I am really rusty.
That's my final resort.

Actually I saw something in my school's website that I can find a Cantonese oral interview from American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, that sounds like an interesting option. But I don't know if that will cost a lot of money.
 
you can't get away if that if you tell that chinese is your native language? they waived for me.

your chinese can't be that be, can it? did you ever learn how to write?
 
I got the freaking shaft.
I came here after fifth grade, the minimum for the waiver is 6 years of education.
My Chinese speaking and reading are top notch, I read so many Chinese books I can probably scare them with all those old Chinese poems.
But I really suck at writing chinese, I can recognize the characters, but I can't reproduce them.
 
The test I took in college (SAT II Chinese I think) didn't have a writing portion...it was either reading or listening. I had no problems with it with my 3rd grade level Mandarin. I also cannot write worth shit.
 
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