Welcome to DIALANG, where you can learn about your strengths and weaknesses in a foreign language, and find out what level you are at. DIALANG provides flexible support to anyone learning a language: You can test yourself in reading, writing, listening, grammar and vocabulary. DIALANG's 14 languages are: Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish. DIALANG offers carefully designed and validated tests of different language skills, together with a range of feedback and expert advice on how to improve your skills. DIALANG also offers scientifically validated self-assessment activities, because it is now widely recognized that being able to judge your own language proficiency is an important part of learning a language. DIALANG does not issue certificates. It allows you to find out what level you are at and where your strengths and weaknesses are, so that you can decide how best to develop your mastery of a language. DIALANG will help you to take control of your language learning and it will increase your awareness both of what you can do at the moment, and of what it means to know a language. More than 20 major European institutions, with the backing of the European Commission, have developed DIALANG. DIALANG is the first major language assessment system to be based on the Council of Europe's "Common European Framework of reference", which has become established throughout Europe as the most widely recognized frame of reference in the field of language learning. To install the DIALANG software onto your system from the Internet, simply click here and follow the on-screen instructions. The full download is currently around 12MB in size and should take around 4 minutes to complete across a T1 connection, or around 50 minutes using a 56K modem. Only first-time users will normally need to perform a full download. To upgrade a previously installed DIALANG program to a new version will require a download of approximately 4MB. For instructions, Click here @ DIALANG DIALANG has been developed with the support of the European Commission: Socrates programme, Lingua 2