Hey, a bit as the title says, the college I wish to apply to values real life skills significantly more than your average college in Northern Europe. Including language skills. I don’t feel competent enough yet to apply for any certificates, but I’m rather close to where I want in some of them.
My question is when should one start applying for those types of certificates? I heard some of them are only ‘valid’ for a few years, which surprises me. I don’t believe anyone at B2-C2 would lose their fluency within 2 years if they were ever truly at this level, although I might be mistaken.
My other question is how do you apply for more niched languages? A significant amount of these languages only have testing opportunities within the ACTFL which seems limited to only oral exams via phone call depending on the language. What are your guys thoughts on this? What would you do?