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Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com> Thu, 26 November 2015 17:34 UTC

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Subject: Re: Pending requests
From: Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com>
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This is a relatively novel and relatively unknown scheme, and is about speaker competence and confidence, not about classification of textual content. A given text may be understood at a B1 or C2 level, but the text would be the same. I would not favour this approach. 

> On 26 Nov 2015, at 11:19, Kent Karlsson <kent.karlsson14@telia.com> wrote:
> 
> BUT, I would prefer a scheme based on CEFR
> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_European_Framework_of_Reference_for_Languages#Common_reference_levels,
> http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/linguistic/Source/Framework_EN.pdf).

Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/

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