Assess Your Language Level

Make contacts and exchange basic information (personal, work and social)

Handle basic business telephone language

Work with numbers (e.g. dates and figures)

Understand simple requests and instructions

Make basic travel arrangements and appointments

Describe the company and its products

Confirm and alter meeting arrangements

Give simple instructions and explanations

Develop contacts and exchange more specific / detailed information

Understand and write simple business correspondence and notes

Contribute to discussions (e.g. express opinions, agree and disagree) and make simple formulaic presentations on familiar topics

Understand and interpret key, work-related information, e.g. handling customer enquiries

Understand and write standard business correspondence and reports

Give more complex instructions and explanations and explain ideas

Participate in routine interviews

Participate more fully in business meetings and discussions

Make more complex formulaic presentations on familiar topics

Understand and write complex business correspondence and reports within own field

Understand and discuss complex concepts of a general and work-related nature

Handle formal and informal meetings and negotiations with, for example, customer or suppliers

Relocate to a country where the language is spoken and function fully in all routine areas and aspects of work

Use appropriate language to deal with an extensive range of oral and written tasks

Respond to a wide variety of situations with fluency and spontaneity

Read, interpret and produce highly specialised texts / reports and present, discuss complex arguments

Make presentations and contribute fully at seminars and conferences