Assessment Websites
If you’d like to assess your language skills, here are some sites that can help. We don’t make any claims as to the veracity of any of them.
Multiple Languages
A great place to start is the United States Defense Language Institute’s Online Diagnostic Assessment (ODA). Their tests are fairly comprehensive compared to other online evaluation tools, but they don’t have every language. They can test the following:
| Language | Reading Assessment | Listening Assessment | Grammar Assessment |
| Arabic-Egyptian | X | ✓ | X |
| Arabic-Iraqi | X | ✓ | X |
| Arabic-Levantine | X | ✓ | X |
| Arabic-MSA | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Balochi | X | ✓ | X |
| Chinese | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Dari | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| English | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Farsi | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| French | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Hebrew | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Korean (South) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Korean (South + North) | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Pashto | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Portuguese | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Russian | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Serbian / Croatian | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Somali | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Spanish | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Tagalog | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Turkish | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Urdu | ✓ | ✓ | X |
English
Mandarin Chinese
- Oral Chinese Test (OCT)
- Mandarin Chinese Level Test (A1-C2) – Strømmen
- Test Your Mandarin Chinese – EF
Hindi
Spanish
French
Arabic
Bengali
Russian
Portuguese
- Transparent Language – Portuguese Proficiency Test
- Portuguese Level Test – Language Trainers
- TestGorilla – Recruitment Assessment Tools
Indonesian
German
Japanese
Swahili
- Free Swahili Language Quiz – Test Your Language
- Swahili placement test: Test your Swahili vocabulary online!
- Swahili Language (Kiswahili) Ability Tests
Italian
- Online Italian level test – ESL
- Italian Tests Online – Europass
- Italian placement tests: Reliable tests to evaluate your Italian
Please note that while we’ve provided a list of assessment tools, the availability and quality of these tools can vary, and they may not all be officially endorsed by language proficiency institutions. It’s always a good idea to verify the credibility of the assessment before using it for formal language proficiency evaluation. Additionally, some languages may have limited resources for online assessment compared to others.
If you have other assessment tools for any language, leave them in the comments below and we’ll add them.