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 | Arabic (All variants) | Armenian | Azerbaijani |
| Bengali | Bulgarian | Burmese | Chinese-Cantonese | Chinese- Mandarin |
| Czech | Danish | Dari | Dutch | Estonian |
| Farsi | French | Georgian | German | Greek |
| Haitian Creole | Hebrew | Hindi | Hungarian | Indonesian |
| Italian | Japanese | Kazakh | Khmer | Korean |
| Kurdish | Kyrghyz | Lao | Latvian | Lithuanian |
| Macedonian | Malay | Mongolian | Nepali | Norwegian |
| Polish | Portuguese | Romanian | Russian | Serbo-Croatian (All variants) |
| Slovak | Slovenian | Spanish | Swahili | Swedish |
| Tajiki | Thai | Turkish | Turkmen | Ukrainian |
| Urdu | Uzbek | Vietnamese (Southern, Northern) |