LANGUAGE SKILL RATING SCALE BASIC (Level 0+) Recognition: Able to recognise and articulate most letters and predictable string of characters. Reading Comprehension limited to rehearsed structures. Able to give, obtain and understand personal information using rehearsed formulaic language only. (Level 1) Survival: Able to recognise and articulate letters high frequency forms, and comprehend short,simple sentences. Able to write short, simple sentences, to satisty basic needs.Able to understand and maintain predictable face-to-face conversations about basic needs with native speakers with frequent repetitions. INTERMEDIATE (Level 1+) Functional Social: Able to translate, interpret, write and to read and understand in the standard variety of simple discourse and to initiate and maintain simple face-to-face conversations on routine social and business matters with most educated people. (Level 2) Limited Working: Able to converse with most native speakers and understand (gist) social and business conversations, general radio news broadcasts plus a range of specialist / topical conversations. (Level 2+)Working: Able to converse with native speakers to satisfy most social and business-related needs and complete some specialised social and business conversation tasks.Able to write, read and understand authentic texts of a social and factual nature to satisfy a limited range of social and business requirements. ADVANCED (Level 3) Proficient Working: Able translate or to interpret with reasonable accuracy the sense of what is conveyed in Indonesian language into English and vice versa. Able to write in better forms and speak effectively on a range of social, business, professional and specialist topics with diction and structural accuracy. (Level 3+) Higher Proficient: Capable of reading and understanding a wider range of texts addresses to the general reader, and able to gist such material. Able to translate general texts both ways using a reasonably idiomatic style and with accurate expression. These two skill features also exist in writing. Able to speak with idiomatic accuracy and cultural awareness in both formal and informal situations, without unduly disturbing native speakers. (Level 4) Advanced Proficient: Able to understand with great accuracy most conversations in the standard-variety, as well as a range of colloquial expressions. Able to speak fluently in the standard variety using common colloquial and idiomatic forms, but with few lapses in appropriateness. (Level 5)Functional Native: Can understand fully all varieties and registers of speech likely to be encountered in professional / business and social circumstances. Can speak and write with complete fluency, accuracy, cultural awareness and appropriateness in the range equivalent to that of a well educated, articulate native speaker. APPROXIMATE NUMBER OF HOURS TO ACHIEVE EACH SKILL LEVEL Starting from Pure beginners: BASIC: 15, 30, 60, 120, INTERMEDIATE 240, 480, ADVANCED: 600 + experience, 720 + experience, 1000 + experience.