Sarafina wrote:Cavesa wrote:7% seems a bit weird, but I wouldn't be surprised. The US universities are known to be bad at languages. I remember seeing a nice example in France: a young woman preparing for a career of a maths and French teacher, who definitely wouldn't even get accepted to such a degree in my country (and the standards for teaching degrees are pretty low). And we hear of it pretty often.
Why wouldn't she have been able to get such a degree your country? Was it that her French and Maths skills were so poor?
Her French skills, I know nothing about her maths.
Around here, B2 tends to be the demanded entry level to study popular languages, B1 at some very remote universities without much of a reputation (I have a backup plan requiring B1 German ). Of course the teaching degrees are much less difficult than the philology or translation ones (I looked at the plans rather carefully), but the competition is still big. Faculties offering degrees in English, German, French, or Spanish can choose their students from a large crowd. The less popular languages have different entry requirements of course.
That girl, who was supposed to teach French in two or three years, had horrible pronunciation with very strong accent. Her grammar and vocabulary allowed her to talk but not with too much nuance or detail. Given my experience with the French exams, I doubt she could pass DELF B2 even with a better accent. With this accent, no chance.
She could have improved in France a lot, but it is rather sad she would have needed a few years at university and an Erasmus to reach what is considered the entry level here.