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What are the 24 official EU languages?
The EU has 24 official languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish.
Although the European Union has 24 official languages, mainly 3 are used as working languages in the European institutions: French, English, and German.
How does the EU promote the teaching and learning of languages?
The Erasmus+ programme
The programme boosts language learning from an early age by enabling pupils, groups of pupils and classes in schools and vocational education and training institutions to study at a host school or take part in a traineeship in another European country.
What language do you need for Epso?
EPSO tests will only assess your knowledge of language 1 (L1), which can be any of the 24 official EU languages.
It will be tested through the verbal, numerical, and abstract reasoning tests in a form of multiple-choice questions.
Your knowledge of L1 needs to be at least at level C1 (proficient user).
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