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The Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI), is a standardized procedure for the global assessment of functional speaking ability. A face-to-face or telephonic interview between certified testers and an examinee is conducted to determine how well an examinee speaks the target language through comparison of his or her performance on specific communication tasks to the Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR) Skill Level Descriptions. The Oral Proficiency Interview takes the form of a carefully structured conversation between trained and certified interviewers and the person whose speaking proficiency is being assessed. The interview is interactive and continuously adapts to the speaking abilities of the individual being tested.The oral proficiency interview (OPI) is a carefully conducted face-to-face conversational test in which the examinee speaks with two testers for 20 - 30 minutes. The test is designed to gather sufficient information about the examinee's speaking ability in the target language to match the examinee's speech sample to the Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR) Speaking Skill Level Descriptions, the rating criteria for the OPI. At present, the Proficiency Standards Division has certified 430 OPI testers in 58 languages and dialects.The relevant language(s) for this test include(s): Afrikaans; Akan (includes Twi and Fante); Albanian; Amharic; Arabic-Algerian; Arabic-Eastern; Arabic-Egyptian; Arabic-Gulf (includes Arabic spoken in Iraq, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, NE Saudi Arabia, and S. Iran); Arabic-Levantine (includes sub-dialects of Syrian, Jordanian, Lebanese, and Palestinian); Arabic-Libyan; Arabic-Modern Standard; Arabic-Moroccan; Arabic-Sudanese (inc. Saudi); Arabic-Tunisian; Arabic-Western; Arabic-Yemeni; Armenian-Eastern Only; Armenian-Western/Eastern; Assyrian; Azeri (Azerbaijani); Baluchi; Belorussian (aka Byelorussian); Bengali; Bosnian; Bulgarian; Burmese; Cambodian (Khmer); Catalan; Cebuano; Chaldean; Chavacano; Chechen; Chinese Cantonese; Chinese Mandarin; Chinese Taiwanese (South Min); Chinese-Wu; Croatian; Czech; Danish; Dinka; Dutch; English; Estonian; Finnish; Flemish; French; Fula/Toucouleur; Fula/Peul; Ga; Georgian; German; Greek; Guarani; Gujarati; Haitian-Creole; Hausa; Hebrew; Hiligaynon; Hindi; Hmong/Mong; Hungarian; Icelandic; Igbo, AKA Ibo; Ilocano; Indonesian; Italian; Japanese; Javanese; Kashmiri; Kazakh; Kikongo/Kongo; Kirghiz; Korean; Krio; Kurdish-Behdini (Kurmanji); Kurdish-Sorani; Lao; Latvian; Lingala; Lithuanian; Macedonian; Malay; Malayalam; Mandingo-Bambara; Mongolian; Nepali (Nepalese); Norwegian; Pashto-Afghan; Persian-Afghan (Dari); Persian-Farsi; Persian-Tajiki; Polish; Ponapean; Portugese-Brazilian; Portugese-European; Pular; Punjabi; Romanian; Russian; Samoan; Serbian; Serbian/Croatian; Sindhi; Singhalese; Slovak; Slovenian; Somali; Spanish; Swahili; Swedish; Tagalog; Tajik; Tamil (Indian); Tamil (Sri Lanken); Tausug; Telugu; Thai; Tibetan; Tigrinya; Turkish; Turkmen; Ukrainian; Urdu; Uyghur; Uzbek; Vietnamese; Visayan (See notes); Wolof; Yappese; Yoruba; Zulu.