My wife's English isn't phenomenal by any means but she was able to get 36/40 questions correct on her second attempt. She bombed the first attempt since she didn't study at all. She studied the English road guide for 3-4 days, pretty much 5-6 hours/day, translated sentences she couldn't understand into Chinese w/a dictionary, made flash cards for the road signs, and so on. At the end of the day, there were really only 20-30 new words she had to learn that were specific to the test (things like "merge", "right-of-way", "off-ramp", etc.) There were also some practice tests online that helped alot. Yeah that may be the route that we have to go. We are going to the DMV in a few minutes to find out the exact answer. She is a smart gal for sure and is probably nervous for no reason. But she is always on the cautious side. I downloaded a manual from the dmv.org before which I thought was supposed to be translated, but it came to me in English and no way to change it. The Michigan manual here is pretty big, so its a lot to look at. Guess she has to do some studying and I will look at an idea like flash cards. After that we will probably schedule the interpreter to come to help her through the test just in case. So many more foreigners I know that barely speak English at all have drivers licenses, so something has to give. And she has been using her translated license since she got here last year in August, so I dont think we can keep getting away with that lol. Her parents helped her buy her own car as well, so Im not sure what they used for her to have an ID besides that and her passport.
