CEFR levels explained: which one are you?

The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) is the scale most language courses — including this one — use to describe how far along a learner is. It runs from A1 to C2, though most everyday courses (this one included) stop building new content at C1, since C2 is closer to native-level nuance than a language most learners set out to reach.

The five levels this app teaches

A1 (Beginner): basic phrases, introductions, simple present-tense sentences. A2 (Elementary): everyday topics — shopping, directions, routines. B1 (Intermediate): handling most travel and work situations, expressing opinions simply. B2 (Upper Intermediate): following extended conversation and expressing more complex ideas fluently. C1 (Advanced): near-fluent, nuanced expression across abstract topics.

How the placement test picks your starting level

Rather than start everyone at lesson one, a 15-question adaptive placement test finds your level directly — multiple choice, listening, and written translation, the same formats the course itself uses, so you're never placed by a test that measures something the course doesn't. Speaking is deliberately left out of placement: it would require microphone access before you've even seen the app, and a denial would leave the question unanswerable.