Levels Explained
The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages abbreviated
in English as CEFRL, is a guideline used to describe achievements of learners of foreign languages across Europe and,
increasingly, in other countries.
A1 - Beginner
At the completion of level A1, you will be able to:
- Talk about your daily routine and your family in detail
- Ask everyday questions (pourquoi, quand, qui etc.).
- Order in a restaurant and shop in stores
- Give date and time and understand a schedule
- Use negation ne ... pas
- Use the recent past and the close future
- Conjugate irregular verbs: avoir, être, aller, prendre, faire.
A2 - Elementary
At the completion of level A2, you will be able to:
- Organize a trip abroad and deal with administrative procedures
- Express a view point and defend it
- Talk about your professional experience
- Use the imparfait and passé composé to talk about past events
- Use the future tense and the imperative
- Refine the use of pronouns: relatives, possessives, comparatives and demonstratives
B1 - Intermediate
At the completion of level B1, you will be able to:
- Understand the main points of conversation regularly encountered in work and leisure
- Describe experiences and events, dreams, hopes & ambitions and give explanations for opinions
- Understand newspaper headlines and the press, relate an event in a narrative style
- Participate in a debate by jumping in and responding.
- Use the conditional tense, and present participle
- Start using the subjunctive tense
B2 - Independent
At the completion of level B2, you will be able to:
- Understand complex texts on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in your field of specialization
- Interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers possible without strain for either party.
- Produce clear, detailed opinions on a wide range of subjects
- Use the passive voice, and more complex structures
C1 - Proficient
At the completion of level C1, you will be able to:
- Understand a wide range of demanding, longer clauses, and recognize implicit meaning
- Express ideas fluently and spontaneously without much searching for expressions.
- Use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes
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Produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, showing controlled use of organizational patterns, connectors and
cohesive devices.
C2 - Advanced
At level C2, you will be able to:
- Understand with ease virtually everything heard or read.
- Summarize information from different spoken and written sources
- Reconstructing arguments and accounts in a coherent presentation
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Express yourself spontaneously, very fluently and precisely, differentiating finer shades of meaning even in more complex
situations.