Jar-Ptitsa wrote:Trui, you're wrong: you are not between B1 and B2. You are about C1 or higher.
I think that my Dutch is about C1 or C1.5 and I have never seen a mistake at all in the dutch that you have written, and it seems very natural. Your word order seems correct with separable verbs, inversions, the german-style infinitive at the end etc etc , vocabulary, grammar everything.
Your dutch is the same level as mine or better. I mean written, I can't say how you can speak it or listen.
Tarvos told you that you are not B1 as well.
I'm an active member of a Dutch language learning server and one of the members is a native Dutch speaker who teaches Dutch professionally. They've seen a lot more of my written Dutch than you guys have and the institute where they teach further divides up the various levels. So there's B1.1 B1.2 and B2.1 and B2.2 etc. instead of just B1 and B2. They've rated my written Dutch as B1.2 a couple months ago and I asked them again today and they said the same.
If that's not good enough for you guys then I'm sorry. B1 is a very good level with which you can work a job in said language. I honestly think people constantly underestimate the B levels. I'm proud of what I've achieved but I'm definitely not C1 or C2 yet.
If I'm B1, then does that mean you're B1 as well and thus have misjudged your level, Jar-Ptitsa? Well the tendency of people to think in such a way is why I don't like these discussions in the first place. It's really hard to judge someone's level from a few posts online, especially if you're not a professional. Honestly I regret commenting on tommus's level because I had no good basis to say anything.
Likewise, I can't judge your level. To properly compare ourselves we'd have to write about a series of topics without the help of dictionaries and the like and get a professional to rate our writing. Personally, I constantly have to reach for a dictionary when I get out of my comfort zone, which is discussing language learning, my fiance, and so forth and even within my comfort zone I reach for a dictionary fairly often. I do think that the main barrier between me and the higher levels is vocabulary. You may have a much larger active vocabulary than I do but since all you see are my posts where I use a dictionary, things appear more equal. Or maybe you also reach for a dictionary just as often as I do and you're also B1.2. I don't know. That's a possibility as well.