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What is your Spanish level?

Seven short passages, hardest last. Read each one and say how much you understood — there are no trick questions and nothing to memorise. Most people finish in about two minutes.

The test

Every other level test labels its questions by hand. These passages are scored by the same difficulty model that grades our daily news, so the level you get is the level you can actually read.

  1. Passage 1 of 7 — how much of it did you understand?

    Hoy hace sol. Voy a la playa. El agua es azul. Hay muchos niños. Ellos juegan. Yo tomo agua. Estoy feliz.

  2. Passage 2 of 7 — how much of it did you understand?

    En la mañana tomo café. Luego voy al trabajo en autobús. Trabajo en una tienda. Vendo flores y plantas. La gente es amable.

  3. Passage 3 of 7 — how much of it did you understand?

    El transporte público de mi ciudad ha cambiado mucho. Antes los autobuses llegaban tarde y siempre iban llenos. Ahora hay más líneas y la gente espera menos. Viajar de un barrio a otro es más cómodo que antes.

  4. Passage 4 of 7 — how much of it did you understand?

    Cuando viajamos a otro país, no solo conocemos lugares nuevos, sino también otras maneras de vivir. A veces nos sorprende la comida, los horarios o la forma en que la gente se saluda. Esas pequeñas diferencias nos ayudan a entender que no existe una única forma correcta de hacer las cosas.

  5. Passage 5 of 7 — how much of it did you understand?

    La divulgación científica cumple una función esencial en sociedades cada vez más complejas. Traducir hallazgos técnicos a un lenguaje accesible permite que la ciudadanía participe en debates que, de otro modo, quedarían en manos de unos pocos especialistas. El reto consiste en simplificar sin distorsionar, una tarea más difícil de lo que suele reconocerse.

  6. Passage 6 of 7 — how much of it did you understand?

    La memoria histórica de una comunidad no se construye exclusivamente sobre los hechos documentados, sino también sobre los silencios deliberados y las omisiones que cada generación decide perpetuar. Aquello que se elige recordar, y sobre todo aquello que se prefiere olvidar, revela tanto sobre el presente que conmemora como sobre el pasado supuestamente evocado.

  7. Passage 7 of 7 — how much of it did you understand?

    La pretensión de aprehender la conciencia mediante el solo concurso de las neurociencias, por más sofisticadas que lleguen a ser sus técnicas de observación, tropieza con una dificultad que algunos consideran insalvable: explicar por qué a determinados procesos físicos los acompaña una experiencia subjetiva, en lugar de transcurrir, como cabría esperar de cualquier mecanismo, en la más completa oscuridad fenoménica.

0 of 7 answered. Skipping one is fine — the estimate uses whatever you answer.

How this test is graded

Most free Spanish level tests label their questions by hand: someone decides a sentence feels B1 and it becomes B1. Ours do not. Each passage above is scored 0–100 by the same deterministic difficulty model that grades the news Lingocito sends every morning — it reads sentence length, verb complexity and how far the vocabulary strays from the most common Spanish words. Your level is then the boundary between the hardest passage you understood and the easiest you did not, which is the honest reading of the evidence: your real ability sits somewhere between those two.

What each passage measures

  1. Passage 1. This passage is graded 7/100 by the same difficulty model that grades our daily news — a reader who understands it is reading at CEFR A1.
  2. Passage 2. This passage is graded 18/100 by the same difficulty model that grades our daily news — a reader who understands it is reading at CEFR A2.
  3. Passage 3. This passage is graded 28/100 by the same difficulty model that grades our daily news — a reader who understands it is reading at CEFR A2.
  4. Passage 4. This passage is graded 40/100 by the same difficulty model that grades our daily news — a reader who understands it is reading at CEFR B1.
  5. Passage 5. This passage is graded 56/100 by the same difficulty model that grades our daily news — a reader who understands it is reading at CEFR B2.
  6. Passage 6. This passage is graded 75/100 by the same difficulty model that grades our daily news — a reader who understands it is reading at CEFR C1.
  7. Passage 7. This passage is graded 91/100 by the same difficulty model that grades our daily news — a reader who understands it is reading at CEFR C2.

What the Spanish levels mean (A1 to C2)

CEFR is the six-level scale every serious Spanish course and exam uses, from A1 to C2. Here is what each one means for reading.

A1 — for absolute beginners
the simplest Spanish — short sentences and the most common words. Read today's A1 story →
A2 — for beginners
easy Spanish for advancing beginners. Read today's A2 story →
B1 — for intermediate learners
natural but accessible intermediate Spanish. Read today's B1 story →
B2 — for upper-intermediate learners
richer Spanish for confident readers. Read today's B2 story →
C1 — for advanced learners
near-native Spanish, with nuance and idiom. Read today's C1 story →
C2 — for advanced learners
full-complexity, near-native Spanish. Read today's C2 story →

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