Ten quick questions with native audio to estimate your CEFR level — no sign-up to try. Takes about two minutes.
What does this Portuguese word mean?
oh-LAH
The vocabulary is the shared core rather than the Brazilian/European split. Where the two varieties genuinely diverge on an everyday word, the question is simply not asked.
The CEFR bands are the same everywhere. What sits inside them is not — A2 in Portuguese asks for things A2 in another language never mentions. Here is what your result actually describes.
Greetings, numbers, ser and estar, and the present tense. You can order and introduce yourself. Nasal vowels — the ã of "não" — are already the sound you cannot quite reproduce.
The pretérito perfeito holds, you form the continuous the way the side of the Atlantic you learned on forms it, and you can describe your day in the past.
The personal infinitive and the future subjunctive — both close to unique to Portuguese — are in play, and you follow speech at natural speed rather than dictation speed.
Spanish speakers over-score on written Portuguese and under-score by ear. If your reading and listening results feel like two different people took the test, that is the Spanish showing.
Worth remembering either way: a multiple-choice test measures recognition. Speaking is a different muscle, and it is the one that decides whether a conversation happens.
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