It was this day exactly THREE months ago that I was packing an overnight bag to take with me to Cádiz for the DELE exam. I had plowed through two practice books and nearly 250€ to prep myself.
Today I’m finally sitting staring at the results. I swear I dreamed about it last night, so I’m taking it as a premonition that it was bound to come out soon.
And come out they did: I am currently updating my resumé to say I have a a NIVEL ALTO de Español, certified at level C1 under the Marco Común Europeo por el Instituto Cervantes. Toma. Ya.
You could say I did it por los pelos: I scored pretty high on the comprehensión lectura and éficaz de escritura (I swear, this was like my ACT scores!!) and barely passed the listening and speaking part, to my surprise – like the math reasoning and science parts of my ACTs 10 years ago.
And this, my friends, would be what the refrán world calls PAN COMIDO (ugh, you can tell I’m on a diet…thinking of bread…because my flamenco dress doesn’t fit…this is a cruel, cruel world). But, hey! I am now officially an espaneesh espeeaker.
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Congratulations on passing your exam. As for the dress being tooooooooo tight, how about three extra big flowers in your hair, and no will will look at the dress. Then again, after all your work on the dress……………
Good idea for the flowers… and it is soooo in this year, as I saw at VMB’s pasarela!
Yay! Congrats! I hope it brings you bigger better things this year!
Good for you! I am also avoiding bread…sigh.
¡Felicidades! Ya eres una de los nuestros.
enhorabuena!!! was just contemplating doing this myself.
You should! It’s valid in most countries in the world and indefinite. I’m applying for masters and no longer need to do an oral interview to determine my level of Spanish.
I enjoyed reading your post on which book to get to prepararse, and it was great to be able to follow up on your results. Congrats on the C1!