Thai Language Proficiency Exam Discovered!

[Gaccha]

I have discovered the Thai Language Proficiency Exam. It has 5 levels. The highest level it describes as translator level. It has a speaking, hearing and writing test. The Level 3 is equivalent to the Thai Junior High School 2nd grade. So, as is the tradition with Japanese exams, they get exponiatially harder (like the Richter scale: ie a richter scale 5 earthquake is 100 times less powerful than a 7, and a 1000 times less powerful than an 8)

It sounds ideal except that it is an exam for Japanese. And it requires translation to Japanese to prove Thai ability, which makes it useless for anyone but native Japanese speakers.

This exam is run by the Association For Thai Language Certification.

I intend to contact them and see if they will expand their operations. The Japanese are used to doing exams for everything. There are ironing certification exams for japanese people to pass. So the market, while smaller, is more lucrative than testing English speakers in Thailand.

The homepage is here: http://www.thaigokentei.com/

Anyone think it is a goer?