A1: Beginner
- Can ask the purchase price of 37 different fruits. Can't understand the response.
- Can introduce self with the same register and word choice of a 1930's diplomat. Can't understand the response.
- Can say "Giraffes live on the plains of Africa"
- Believes true fluency will be attained after another 6 months of study
- Has 23 websites on language learning bookmarked
- Has 27,563 unseen cards in Anki
- When greeted by native speaker can turn multiple shades of red and stand motionless with mouth open for several minutes
- Can start a Polyglot YouTube channel and teach others how to learn languages.
- Believes true fluency will be attained after another 6 months of study
- Can have conversations with native speakers provided they speak completely in learner's native language.
- Can produce the first two words of most sentences before stopping cold and searching for a word for 2 minutes.
- Can watch TV in the TL and tell people they got the 'gist', such as "there were three people talking, one seemed angry about something".
- Can claim C1 on resume.
- Believes true fluency will be attained after another 6 months of study
- Can have conversations with native speakers provided they don't say anything interesting.
- Can no longer be considered by natives as the 'cute' foreigner who is trying hard to learn the TL, but as the annoying guy who asks the cashier to repeat everything four times.
- Can understand that most TV programming is crap in the TL too.
- Believes true fluency will be attained after another 6 months of study
- Can survive in a TL working environment and smile and nod foolishly whenever anyone says anything colloquial, slangy or related to pop culture.
- Can understand and be exposed to the full brunt of any cultural or racial discrimination in the TL.
- Believes true fluency will be attained after another 6 months of study
- Can have a long effortless, complex conversation and be told that they really suck at speaking the language because they have an accent.
- Can give a detailed account of the long, often difficult, multi-year journey to reach C2, explain the things tried, what worked and didn't work and have an A2 say their opinion on language learning methodology doesn't matter because their success is clearly only due to their natural gift for languages.
- Had the opportunity to say "Giraffes live on the plains of Africa", but in the excitement of the moment forgot the verb for "to live".
- Believes true fluency will be attained after another 6 months of study
Edit: fixed some nits.
Edit: added based on community input