Students can perform basic language functions such as self-introduction, making a purchase and ordering food and converse about very personal and familiar topics such as introducing themselves and their family, hobbies and weather.Students can make simple sentences with around 800 words and understanding of basic grammar. Students can understand and organize everyday conversation and dialogues in simple settings.

Students can carry on conversations for daily functions such as making a call or asking a favor as well as specific settings of using public facilities of post office or bank. Students can comprehend the dialogue on personal and familiar topics by using around 1500 to 2000 words. Students can distinguish vocabularies for official and casual settings.

Students can easily function in daily settings and perform dialogue in using various public facilities and maintaining social interaction. Not just casual topics, students can express or understand social topics familiar to them in paragraphs. They can understand basic characteristics of formal and informal language and use them in sentences based on their understanding.

Students can comfortably perform language functions in using public facilities and maintaining social interaction as well as some level of language function required for conducting tasks. Also, they can understand simple contents in news feeds or articles. They can relatively understand general social topics and fluently and precisely express such topics in dialogue. Students can converse about social and cultural contents in conversation based on frequently used idioms and their understanding on Korean culture.

Students can perform some level of language functions required for research or tasks in professional fields. Also they can understand and converse about topics unfamiliar to them such as politics, economics, society and culture. Students can distinguish language context and purpose such as official/unofficial and formal/casual language.

Students can perform language functions relatively precisely and fluently in conducting research and tasks in professional fields. Students can understand and converse about topics unfamiliar to them such as politics, economics, society and culture. Students’ language proficiency does not reach the level of native speakers, but they do not have difficulties in performing language functions and delivering messages.