| 0 - 12 | - | Novice | Understands very limited words. |
| 13 - 49 | A1 | Low | Understands occasional isolated words or short, learned utterances, phrases from simple statements, basic ideas in short paragraph passages. |
| 50 - 67 | A2 | Low-intermediate | Understands most frequent, general words, sentence-length utterances, spoken words, phrases, related to content about personal background. Able to read for limited purposes where the texts are not linguistically complex and understand main ideas in short passages. |
| 68 - 79 | B1 | Intermediate | Understands frequent, general words and/or phrasal utterances, most sentence-length utterances on a variety of topics and understands a variety of spoken words, phrases, and/or utterances related to content about personal background, needs and more complex tasks. Able to read for instructional and directional purposes and understands main ideas and details in simple, connected passages. |
| 80 - 92 | B2 | High-intermediate | Understands a combination of shorter and longer utterances over prolonged stretches on a variety of topics and in a variety of contexts and comprehends most spoken words, phrases, and/or utterances related to content about familiar and unfamiliar topics or somewhat more complex tasks. Mostly capable of reading that serve a variety of purposes and understands main ideas and details in simple and complex, connected passages with longer paragraphs. |
| 93 -100 | C1 | Advance | Understands most utterances over prolonged stretches for most topics and in most contexts and understands almost all spoken words, phrases, and/or utterances related to content about a variety of topics or largely complex tasks. Fully capable of reading texts that serve a variety of purposes and understands main ideas and details in simple and complex, connected passages with multiple longer paragraphs. |