competence

Based on accent, people make judgments about competence, attractiveness, and personality

center of competence

centres of competence

is usually better off trying to improve overall language competence

overall language competence

This is how we build up our competence, our abilities and our strengths

educational authorities find it necessary to try to objectively assess the language competence of non-native speakers

The best judge of your language competence is you, the learner

overall competence-building

executive competence