Info on the citizenship language test

Hi
I am also curious about this ...
How good is your Portuguese exactly .
Mine is at a fairly good conversational level and I can even discuss and work with people on quite technical subjects , however I still miss an important word here or there or suddenly struggle to explain something fairly basic for lack of the right expression.
But I can manage everything required for day to day life , converse , follow orders and everybody understands me...well 85% of the time anyway

From what I've heard , which is practically 0 and what I imagine , it must be quite a difficult test , I believe you need to achieve a near native level of fluency and command of the language , otherwise everyone would be doing it.

Hi,

  It sounds like you are more advanced than me for sure! If I had to rate myself from 1-10 I would give myself a 3.5 in Portuguese. That aside, I can function day to day pretty well. Sometimes I struggle a bit, but, for the most part I can get my point across. I know I have improved quite a bit because I almost never have to pull my phone out and use google translate anymore. But, I work from home so the amount of Portuguese required of me is far less than the average Brazilian.

I have read on some other blogs. gringoes.com, some older and differing posts about the exam. Anything from, when the PF comes for the visit they just chat you up a bit and don't really give a test at all, to, they ask you to write a 100 word thing about yourself, to they just ask you 5 questions about why you want to naturalize and then ask you to take dictation of a paragraph from the constitution as someone slowly reads aloud. All seem easy enough, but, they are all pretty different. I would love to hear a first hand account from someone who has done this recently preferably in the Florianopolis region because I know it can vary from state to state.