Levels of competence
Language levels
For the languages German, English, Korean, Russian and Ukrainian.
How to find your language level
Listening
I can understand familiar words and phrases provided if it is spoken slowly and clearly.
Speaking
I can interact in a simple way. I can introduce myself and others and answer questions about personal details.
Reading
I can understand familiar names, words, and simple phrases on notices, posters etc.
Writing
I can write a short postcard. I can fill in forms with personal details like name, address, and nationality.
Listening
I can understand simple information about areas of most immediate relevance (family, employment, shopping). I can understand the main points of simple notifications and announcements.
Speaking
I can communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a simple and direct exchange of information on familiar and routine matters.
Reading
I can find specific information in simple everyday material (time table, menu etc.). I can understand short simple personal letters.
Writing
I can write short simple notes and messages. I can write a very simple personal letter.
Listening
I can understand the main points of clear standard input on familiar matters regularly encountered in work, school, leisure etc. I can understand clearly spoken broadcasts.
Speaking
I can deal with most situations in family, leisure, work, travelling, and experiences.
Reading
I can understand texts about areas of everyday and job-related language. I can understand private letters about experiences, dreams, and hopes.
Writing
I can produce simple connected texts on topics which are familiar or of personal interest. I can describe experiences and events, dreams, hopes, and ambitions and briefly give reasons and explanations for opinions and plan.
Listening
I can understand the main ideas of complex texts on both concrete and abstract topics. I can understand most TV news, features, and the majority of film in standard dialect.
Speaking
I can interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible without strain for either party.
Reading
I can understand the viewpoint on a topical issue in articles and reports. I can understand contemporary literary prose.
Writing
I can produce clear, detailed texts on a wide range of subjects and explain a viewpoint on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages.
Listening
I can understand extended speech. I can easily understand television programmes and films.
Speaking
I can express myself fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions. I can use language, flexibly and effectively for social, academic, and professional purposes.
Reading
I can understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts and recognise implicit meaning. I can understand papers and longer technical articles.
Writing
I can produce clear, well-structured, detailed texts on complex subjects, showing controlled use of organisational patterns, connectors, and cohesive devices.
Listening
I can understand with ease virtually everything I hear, such as colloquial language, local language, and unfamiliar terminology.
Speaking
I can express myself spontaneously, very fluently and precisely, differentiating finer shades of meaning even in more complex situations.
Reading
I can understand with ease virtually everything I read (manuals, technical articles, literature etc.).
Writing
I can summarise information from different spoken and written sources, reconstructing arguments and accounts in a coherent presentation.
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About Eloquenta
2010
Founded
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Languages
>130
Corporate and private clients
Testimonials
What our learners say about us

Teachers are very helpful and patient with slow learners. Slowly, we can both see progress. Classes are not boring, and you can see that the teachers actually put an effort to make the lesson fun or dynamic. That helps me to get motivation to improve my German.
Mir gefällt sehr, dass der Unterrichtsstoff an den spezifischen Lernenden angepasst wird.
Ich empfehle den Unterricht unbedingt weiter, da man merkt, dass sich die Lehrperson sehr viele Gedanken macht, wie sie den Unterricht am spannendsten gestaltet und den Unterricht individuell auf jeden Schüler anpasst. Ich würde diese Schule wieder wählen, da die Lehrer sehr flexibel sind und man auch Online-Unterricht nehmen kann.

Conversation practice with Anastasia Piskareva gradually broke down my language barrier, and I was surprised to find that I was soon able to understand speech in public transport and even speak a little with the staff at the store, pharmacy, post office. Also was good to know that the teachers speak your language. My teacher could support explanation for me in Russian and in case of my husband the perfect English of Maria Boulter was very helpful.