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Berlitz Proficiency Levels
Functional Skills
Level 1: Can manage brief exchanges in common situations such as meeting people or asking directions, making simple statements and questions in the present tense.
Level 2: Can satisfy simple personal or business needs such as ordering a meal or making a phone call, using past, present and future tenses. This is a solid foundation level.
Intermediate Skills
Level 3: Can handle simple tasks in common personal and professional situations such as making travel arrangements or discussing a price.
Level 4: Can function in common personal and professional situations such as transacting routine business at a bank or making a brief presentation at a meeting, and in command in routine courtesies.
Level 5: Can function in fairly demanding personal and professional situations such as participating in a discussion or meeting.
Level 6: Can function in most ordinary personal and professional situations including more complex ones such as consulting a lawyer, an accountant, or other professional.
Advanced & Professional Skills
Level 7: Can function in a wide range of personal and professional situations including managing an office or settling a disagreement, with a good understanding of language appropriacy.
Level 8: Can function in most personal and professional situations including challenging ones such as making a sales presentation or conducting a meeting and can deal with most subjects over the phone.
Level 9: Can communicate effectively with various audiences on a wide range of familiar and new topics to meet most personal, academic or professional demands – including many which presume experience in public speaking and critical listening.
Level 10: At the professional level, users have full command of the language. They understand and can use virtually all linguistic structures as well as a range of vocabulary items as broad and deep as that of most educated native speakers. Communication is fluent, appropriate and well organised.
