Proficiency or Advanced? (a bit of light-hearted humour)

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Proficiency or Advanced? (a bit of light-hearted humour)

Postby LinguaPony » Wed Nov 01, 2017 7:18 pm

At work we were all asked to update our CVs. Today I was having a cup of tea in the kitchen, and a colleague came to me and asked
"What is the correct word for my level of English?"

"Proficiency, or you can just put C2 there."

"Say it again?"

"Proficiency".

A couple of hours later I asked him, "Did you write the word Proficiency on your CV?"

"No."

"Why not?"

"I couldn't get it right the first time around and decided that I had Advanced, after all."
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Re: Proficiency or Advanced? (a bit of light-hearted humour)

Postby LinguaPony » Thu Nov 02, 2017 4:15 am

About half an hour later, the same cast of personages.

I walk up to a whiteboard and point to a bunch of random strokes made by one of the colleagues.

"Am I the only one who sees a Chinese character in it?"

"Yes, you are. You must be seeing them everywhere."

I point to a drawing of a cat on the same board.

"No, I don't see any in this cat."

"Oh, don't you really? Now take a good look at its whiskers. The right one. Now what does it remind you of?"

"Arrrrrgh! Did you have to do it?"

"Ha-ha! Now try to unsee it!"
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Re: Proficiency or Advanced? (a bit of light-hearted humour)

Postby LinguaPony » Thu Nov 02, 2017 4:29 pm

The drawings for the second post:

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