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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