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Which languages qualify for bonus points?

The following languages qualify for .17 language bonus points if you pass the telephone test administered by the Foreign Service Institute (FSI) or its designated contractor at a speaking level of 3:

Albanian Amharic Armenian - East Azerbaijani Bengali
Bulgarian Burmese Cambodian - Khmer Chinese Cantonese Czech
Danish Dutch/Flemish Estonian Finnish French
Georgian German Greek Haitian Creole Hausa
Hebrew Hungarian Icelandic Indonesian Italian
Japanese Kazakh Kinyarwanda/Rwanda Kyrgyz Lao
Latvian Lithuanian Macedonian Malay Mongolian
Nepali/Nepalese Norwegian Panjabi/Punjabi Persian - Tajiki Pilipino/Tagalog
Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Serbo-Croatian (All variants)
Singhalese Slovak Slovenian Somali Spanish
Swahili/Kiswahili Swedish Tamil Telugu Thai
Tibetan Turkish Turkmen Ukrainian Uzbek
Vietnamese - Std.        

The following languages qualify for additional bonus points if you pass the telephone test administered by the Foreign Service Institute (FSI) or its designated contractor with a speaking level of 2:

Arabic – Any variety Chinese – Mandarin Hindi Korean Pashto
Persian – Afghan (Dari) Persian – Iranian (Farsi) Urdu    

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