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[Francko]

I have got 5.

What the hell am I doing here?I should seat in Heathrow arrivals

To my taste I scored 5 extra points than expected.

[planetit]

Wow, that's a tough question Joe. I mean how could they possibly know where he found the key?

Could have been anywhere.

What's the correct answer?

[Francko]

You don't need to get along with english people in London anyway, there are so few of them. You might need a polish or russian culture test indeed. That's more useful here.

[Joe Black]

Wow, that's a tough question Joe. I mean how could they possibly know where he found the key?

Could have been anywhere.

What's the correct answer?

In the street of course...

My example was simply meant to show the difference between multi-choice style "Where does Father Christmas live?" questions (answer supplied in book) and the Dutch who seem to be at least testing more on whether you can really function in the country itself.

Their example answer is simply: "I've found a key in the street by the supermarket. The key is now at the police station"

Of course it's an open question so you can write as much as you want, a test in itself...

[threaded]

Pah, that's nothing, you ought to see what they do in Denmark. They have this sort of test in an entirely artificial language invented by civil servants called "rigt dansk", it is not a language anyone actually speaks and there are precious few books written using it.

I've tried it, for a lark, on people from all over Denmark and their usual reply is "WTF are you saying?".

I got into a lovely discussion with one of my lady friends who said the reactions I got were obviously due to my accent. So I challenged her to use it in the supermarket we were in. The shop manager she started up a conversation with replied (and I translate): "Can you repeat that, but in Danish please."

Which made me LOL.

[AtW]

Bit of a joke really, 45 minutes, 24 noddy multiple choice questions with most of the answers taken from some booklet you can study at home.

The idea for this test is to ensure that those taking part in arranged marriages from Asia would actually have to learn the language and some facts about this country -- the test is harder then I thought as it actually requires KNOWING things, thanks feck they at least made a book and I hope answers are self-evident after reading this book: this is exactly what they are trying to achieve with test and I'd say its a pretty fair intention.

[WageSlave]

13 right for me. Didn't know they scrapped the requirement for dog licences

[Joe Black]

the test is harder then I thought as it actually requires KNOWING things, thanks feck they at least made a book and I hope answers are self-evident after reading this book: this is exactly what they are trying to achieve with test and I'd say its a pretty fair intention.

Come on AtW, the test is nothing more than a bl**dy pub quiz. How is knowing that Santa lives at the North Pole or Harry Potter went to Hogwarts going to help people or show they're integrating into a society when even half the British might not get the answers right?

At least the Dutch test seems to deal with that on a more sensible/pragmatic level rather than considering who's Kath from EastEnders illegitimate daughter of any importance...

"I hope answers are self-evident after reading this book"

Don't do it AtW, for our sakes...

[AtW]

How is knowing that Santa lives at the North Pole or Harry Potter went to Hogwarts going to help people or show they're integrating into a society when even half the British might not get the answers right?

As I said above -- the idea is to have reasonable barrier against those foreigners who don't want even to learn language -- say those ladies who come to marry on arrangement from Pakistan: they don't learn local language, they don't leave the house past few streets etc.

I am about to make an application in a week actually, and this new test does not bother me one bit.

[Joe Black]

"the idea is to have reasonable barrier against those foreigners who don't want even to learn language"

But isn't there meant to be an English test as well, if so what does the pop culture quiz achieve?

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