Self-assessment Websites

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:

English

1. Cambridge English Test
2. AJE’s Grammar Check for Academic English

Mandarin Chinese

1. Oral Chinese Test (OCT)
2. Mandarin Chinese Level Test (A1-C2) – Strømmen
3. Test Your Mandarin Chinese – EF

Hindi

1. Transparent Language – Hindi Proficiency Test
2. Free Hindi Language Quiz – Test Your Language

Spanish

1. Cervantes Institute Spanish Test
2. Spanish Level Test – ESL

French

1. Erasmus+ Online Language Support
2. French Level Test – Berlitz

Arabic

1. Arabic Level Test – ESL
2. Arabic Level Test – Language Trainers

Bengali

1. Ling App – Learn Bengali
2. Bengali Language Tool Kits

Russian

1. Russian Level Test – ESL
2. Russian Language Level Test – Language Trainers

Portuguese

1. Transparent Language – Portuguese Proficiency Test
2. Portuguese Level Test – Language Trainers
3. TestGorilla – Recruitment Assessment Tools

Indonesian

1. Indonesian Proficiency Assessment Test — Indonesian-Online

German

1. Test your German – Goethe-Institut
2. Free Online German Test – Humboldt-Institut

Japanese

1. JLPTCheck: Test your Japanese
2. Online Japanese Language Level Test

Swahili

1. Free Swahili Language Quiz – Test Your Language
2. Swahili placement test: Test your Swahili vocabulary online!
3. Swahili Language (Kiswahili) Ability Tests

Italian

1. Online Italian level test – ESL
2. Italian Tests Online – Europass
3. 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.