How to get your English beyond C2 level — if that even exists.
<p>The European Union came up with the <em>Common European Framework of Reference </em>as a means to standardise the different levels language learners could have. The CEFR indicators are the same for all languages, which means that you can measure the B2 level of English and the B2 level of French in the same way.</p>
<p>The highest level, C2, is often considered near-native, but that doesn’t feel appropriate. On the other hand, how do we measure the language level of native speakers? As a native speaker of Dutch, I probably have an above-average language level in Dutch because I studied at a university.</p>
<p>However, I’m not very proficient in academic Dutch, and I even dare to say that I’m more proficient in academic English than academic Dutch simply because I studied English and linguistics in English and wrote my theses in English too. The expected level in English was very high (<a href="https://mrhenriquez.medium.com/how-i-became-a-near-native-speaker-of-english-part-1-fdbe2a8ffd37" rel="noopener">as you have read here</a>), and I had to push to get there.</p>
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