A1, A2, B1, B2, C1, C2: What are these language levels?

A1 corresponds to a user level elementary (level introductory or discovery).

This means that you have the following capabilities:

• Understand and use familiar and everyday expressions and very simple statements that are intended to meet concrete needs
• Knowing how to introduce yourself or someone
• Being able to ask and answer questions about a person
• Communicate simply if the caller speaks slowly and clearly and is cooperative

A2 corresponds to a user level elementary (level middleman or usual).

This means that you have the following capabilities:

• Understand single phrases and frequently used expressions in relation to areas of the everyday environment (e.g. simple personal and family information, shopping, work)
• Ability to communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring only a simple and direct exchange of information on familiar and routine subjects
• Describe with simple means his training, his immediate environment and talk about subjects that correspond to immediate needs

B1 corresponds to a user level self-employed (level threshold).

This means that you have the following capabilities:

• Understand the essential points of a discussion when clear and standard language is used and if it is familiar things at work, school, leisure, etc.
• Be autonomous in most situations encountered while traveling in an area where the target language is spoken
• To be able to produce a simple and coherent discourse on familiar subjects and in its fields of interest
• The ability to tell a story, an experience or a dream, describe a hope or a goal, and briefly explain the reasons or reasons for a project or idea

B2 corresponds to a user level self-employed (level advanced or self-employed).

This means that you have the following capabilities:

• Understand the essential content of concrete or abstract subjects in a complex text, including technical discussion in its specialty
• Communicating spontaneously and easily with a native speaker
• Express a clear and detailed opinion on a wide range of topics, express an opinion on a topical issue and set out the advantages and disadvantages of different possibilities

C1 corresponds to a user level experienced (level autonomous).

This means that you have the following capabilities:

• Understand long and demanding texts and grasp implicit meanings
• Speak spontaneously and fluently without having to search for words
• Use language effectively and flexibly in social, professional or academic life
• Express themselves on complex subjects in a clear and well-structured way and demonstrate their control of the linguistic tools of organization, articulation and cohesion of the discourse

C2 corresponds to a user level experienced (level mastery).

This means that you have the following capabilities:

• Effortlessly understand virtually everything that is read or heard
• Be able to convey facts and arguments from various written and oral sources in a coherent manner
• Express yourself spontaneously, very commonly, accurately, and make distinct nuances of meaning in relation to complex subjects