Can handle a simple survival situation that one might encounter abroad. Discourse is characterized by simple sentences or phrases. There is little use of cohesive devices. Intermediate speech is quite inaccurate, even in basic structures. Vocabulary is quite limited.
Intermediate speakers are intelligible to native speakers used to dealing with foreigners .
At the upper level, intermediate speakers start showing aspects of the advanced speaker. Can narrate and describe in present, past, and future time. Show a greater sociolinguistic competence in their speech. Discourse is improved as they use longer, more complex sentences Although there are still errors, there is improved control of grammar structures. Are comprehensible to native speakers not used to dealing with foreigners .