Monday, November 5, 2007
dema dovo do?
I just got through taking this crazy test last Thursday for ROTC...probably the strangest and silliest test I have ever had to take. It's called the DLAB, which stands for Defense Language Aptitude Battery. It's supposed to measure your ability to learn a foreign language. If you score pretty high, there's a good chance that you'll be recruited to go into foreign languages. I was expecting something like the verbal or grammatical parts of the SAT, but boy, was I wrong. The entire test is in a made up language! You have to do things like connect how certain words are related and how they are formed, stuff like that. I'm not allowed to give any specific examples, but it was pretty much a language test in gibberish. I was trying not to laugh during the test because it sounded so funny, and there was a part where you had to memorize 5 or so "grammatical rules" of the made up language then rearrange the sentences to fit them..in like thirty seconds. Needless to say, that probably wasn't the highest score of my test. I'm not really sure how that measures your ability, but who knows...
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