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The LKMT/LLPT (Lietuvių Kalbos Mokėjimo Testas/Lithuanian Language Prificiency Test), issued by the Vilnius University (ALTE - the Association of Language Testers in Europe member) on behalf of Lithuania’s Ministry of Education, offers official accreditation of mastery of the Lithuanian language for residents of countries in which Lithuanian is not the official language.
The test, offered to youth at three (A1-A2-B1) levels, tests your ability to read, write, speak and understand Lithuanian.
Test will take place Sunday April 17th, 2016 at various locations in the US. One of the testing centers is Lithuanian Alliance of America in New York City (Info: Monika Paulavičiūtė Kungienė mpaulaviciute@hotmail.com, tel. 718-809-9235), info regarding other centers: Gailutė Urbonaitė-Narkevičienė lietuviukalba@hotmail.com.
Proficiency levels in language learning in the US and in Europe had been been approximated to align in order to make it clear transparent fro everyone internationaly.
In the US ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages) has its proficiency level system and in Europe the Council of Europe organizes its own system (CEFR - Common European Framework of Reference for Languages). Having Lithuanian language testing system under CEFR system inables to translate into the American ACTFL system.
We thank Gailutė Urbonaitė-Narkevičienė and many Lithuanian schools' teachers for tremendous effort to make this test possible.