Intermediate contributions
B1:
You can understand the main points when clear standard language is used and it is about familiar things from work, school, leisure, etc. You can deal with most situations encountered when travelling in the language area. You can cope with most situations encountered when travelling in the language area. You can express yourself coherently about, for example, personal goals and areas of interest.
B2:
You can understand the main ideas of complex texts on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in your own field of specialisation. You can communicate so spontaneously and fluently that a normal conversation with native speakers is quite possible without major effort on either side.
Difficult contributions
C1:
You understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts and also implicit meanings. You can use the language in social and professional life in a flexible, structured and detailed way.
C2:
You understand practically effortlessly everything you read or hear. You can express yourself spontaneously in a very fluent and precise manner and also make finer nuances of meaning clear in more complex subject matter.