r/MurderedByWords • u/Bitter-Gur-4613 • 6d ago

Brutal ratio holy shit #1 Murder of Week

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u/justwannabeloggedin 5d ago

I might unintentionally be proving I'm the 21% but what is B2

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u/Chosen_Chaos 5d ago

After a quick Google search, it's part of the Common European Frame of Reference for Languages and B2 is the fourth of six levels and seems to be moderately advanced.

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u/Grigoran 5d ago

Damn so they can discuss vague concept in English and we can't even read straightforward instructions in our own native language fuuuuuck

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u/Extaupin 3d ago edited 3d ago

they can discuss vague concept

I'm sorry to double tap you like that, but don't you mean "abstract" instead?

Btw, because it's relevant, I'm not a native speaker but I did pass my Cambridge assessment B2 during high-school, I had good writing and listening but terrible speaking, I could read novels but I could barely say hello, and I needed subtitles for Youtube. Now I passed C2, I can mostly understand original Shakespeare but I struggle, and I can have technical conversations in my domain (went working abroad). To give you a rough idea of European level (and France is considered very bad in English for European standards)

PS: feel free to correct any mistake I made, that'd be more than fair game.

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u/seetfniffer 3d ago

You added an 'e' after "domain"

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u/Extaupin 3d ago

Fixed, thanks!

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u/MsTellington 3d ago

I heard that French students were meant to have B2 level at the end of high school (baccalauréat général). Which didn't really track with the fact that, despite being a good student (16/20 average in English class, top of the class) I could not read an actual English book out of high school.