Operation OPI

^{Hacking the OPI}

A slow clumsy project involving me
putting everything I've learned about
the OPI into one place.

What is the OPI?

^{Wikipedia entry:}
"An Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) is a standardized, global assessment of functional speaking ability. Taking the form of a conversation between the tester and test-taker, the test measures how well a person speaks a language by assessing their performance of a range of language tasks against specified criteria."

The most common form of the test is over the phone, but computer OPIs (OPIc) are possible in many common languages. (I've done both many times -- the phone sucks because if you're unlucky, the proctor's voice quality might be very low, and personally, my listening skills drop dramatically when I can't see the speaker's face ㅠㅠ. The OPIc is done with a robot voice with a robot proctor asking prewritten questions based on an interest survey you take, and it's overall very uncanny.)

How is the OPI scored?

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Novice Low Unable to function in the spoken language.
Novice Mid (0) Able to operate in only a very limited capacity.
Novice High (0+) Able to satisfy immediate needs with learned utterances.
Intermediate Low Able to satisfy basic survival needs and minimum courtesy requirements.
Intermediate Mid (1) Able to satisfy some survival needs and some limited social demands.
Intermediate High (1+) Able to satisfy most survival needs and limited social demands.
Advanced Low Able to satisfy routine social demands and limited work requirements.
Advanced Mid (2) Able to satisfy most work requirements and show some ability to communicate on concrete topics.
Advanced High (2+) Able to satisfy all daily and professional requirements, but unable to sustain fluency at a superior level.
Superior (3) Able to speak the language with sufficient structural accuracy and vocabulary to participate effectively in most formal and informal conversations.
Distinguished (4) Able to speak with a great deal of fluency, grammatical accuracy, precision of vocabulary, and idiomaticness.
Native Able to speak like an educated native speaker.

그럼 한국어를 본격적으로 공부하기 시작할래?

Let's go!!!

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_{All materials included in Operation OPI were created by
Professor LEE Sun-min and Professor
YANG Hye-yoon
of Korea University.}

under construction. clearly.