The area of PLE evaluation interests me quite a bit, I'm starting the process of becoming an examiner for the Celpe-Bras and it's likely I'll be administering it for the second edition this year.
As such, it got me thinking about the other side: How many of you have taken it, and how was it? If you're planning to take it, what are you worried the most about?
Okay, bear with me. This is something that I've noticed recently. I'll be teaching a student the numbers from 0 to 10 and when I read 5 they'll ask me "oh, so you don't pronounce the -co?", and I'll be like "what? you definitely do pronounce it". Then another day my partner asked me the time for something and I answered "cinco" but apparently it sounded like "sim".
To sum up, it seems I don't fully pronounce the last syllable in "cinco" for some reason, although in my head I'm definitely pronouncing the whole word.
Have you ever noticed you don't fully pronounce a syllable at the end of a word? Or, if you're learning Portuguese, you're expecting to hear the full word and the speaker apparently doesn't pronounce it fully?