SPC Private RallyPoint Member 7492384 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>How do I schedule a DLPT?<br /><br />I am thinking of studying a language in order to get the Foreign Language Proficiency Bonus. The latest Strategic Language List I could find (dated 13 November 2019) mentions Kirghiz as an &quot;Emerging Language Authorized for all PMOS/Branches. <br /><br />However, I cannot find any documentation on how to schedule and take a DLPT, once I have learned a language. The documentation regarding Kirghiz language proficiency is even more limited. My fear of that I will take the time to study something and then be unable to capitalize on my success.<br /><br />Can anyone provide insight, documentation or at least some advice on how to schedule a DLPT once proficiency in a language? Offhandedly if anyone knows if there is even a test for Kirghiz I would like to know that as well. Thanks!! 2022-01-23T17:29:45-05:00 SPC Private RallyPoint Member 7492384

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>How do I schedule a DLPT?<br /><br />I am thinking of studying a language in order to get the Foreign Language Proficiency Bonus. The latest Strategic Language List I could find (dated 13 November 2019) mentions Kirghiz as an &quot;Emerging Language Authorized for all PMOS/Branches. <br /><br />However, I cannot find any documentation on how to schedule and take a DLPT, once I have learned a language. The documentation regarding Kirghiz language proficiency is even more limited. My fear of that I will take the time to study something and then be unable to capitalize on my success.<br /><br />Can anyone provide insight, documentation or at least some advice on how to schedule a DLPT once proficiency in a language? Offhandedly if anyone knows if there is even a test for Kirghiz I would like to know that as well. Thanks!!

2022-01-23T17:29:45-05:00 2022-01-23T17:29:45-05:00 SFC Ralph E Kelley 7492450

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I took the one for German in the early 1980s, I went thru the BN Training NCO. <br />Probably not the same today.

2022-01-23T18:11:18-05:00 2022-01-23T18:11:18-05:00 SSgt Thomas L. 7494181

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>For a FLPB you need to talk to personnel. <a target="_blank" href="https://www.hrc.army.mil/content/Foreign%20Language%20Proficiency%20Bonus">https://www.hrc.army.mil/content/Foreign%20Language%20Proficiency%20Bonus</a> <div class="pta-link-card answers-template-image type-default"> <div class="pta-link-card-picture"> <img src="https://d1ndsj6b8hkqu9.cloudfront.net/link_data_pictures/images/000/686/754/qrc/open-uri20220124-3399-1metvoc"> </div> <div class="pta-link-card-content"> <p class="pta-link-card-title"> <a target="blank" href="https://www.hrc.army.mil/content/Foreign%20Language%20Proficiency%20Bonus">HRC Homepage</a> </p> <p class="pta-link-card-description"></p> </div> <div class="clearfix"></div> </div>

2022-01-24T17:09:53-05:00 2022-01-24T17:09:53-05:00 SSgt Thomas L. 7495574

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>So I think I misread this at first. Are you planning on learning Kyrgyz or do you already speak it? I&#39;m sure there&#39;s an incentive for Kyrgyz speakers, given we have a base in Kyrgyzstan. However would you be learning it just so you can get the language bonus?

2022-01-25T12:53:34-05:00 2022-01-25T12:53:34-05:00 SFC Private RallyPoint Member 7495599

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>DLPTs are scheduled at a military education and testing center, it&#39;s a DOD test so you can take it at any branch education center.<br /><br />You aren&#39;t going to get paid for a language unless you&#39;re a 2/2 speaker and reader, that means you are functionally fluent in the language. To give you an idea of what that means, people who attend the Defense Language School for a year, eight hours a day, fully immersed in the language with no English spoken in the classroom, are only expected to reach a 2/2 after 12-15 months in the course. Studying an obscure language for 1-2 years might not be worth the investment in time

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