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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.
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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 →
Knowing your level is step one. Reading at it is the rest.
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