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- Basic directions on how to get somewhere
- Greetings and other very commonly occurring social routines
- Questions about your personal background, family, and why you are in the country
- Questions about your personal interests and activities, such as hobbies, sports, and subjects you know a lot about
- Short, routine telephone conversations, well enough to be able to take a simple message for someone
- Bits and pieces of radio or television announcements and news reports dealing with familiar topics or events
- A description of a place or a person
- Locations and times, if making arrangements to meet somebody later
- Prices and amounts of money you need to pay in a shop, store, or market
- Questions the shopkeeper might ask you about what exactly you want
- Familiar words in conversations between mother-tongue speakers (If the topic is familiar, you might get the main ideas, but might not understand all they are saying )
- Enough to carry on short conversations on concrete topics with friendly mother-tongue speakers used to dealing with foreigners, if they make an effort to help you to understand
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