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Duolingo Section → CEFR Level Checker: Find Out Where You Really Stand

Your Duolingo path says Section 5. Your CV, your university application and your language school all ask for a CEFR level. This checker bridges the two: tell it your language and the section you are in, and it works out the CEFR level that section roughly equals — A1, A2, B1 or B2 — plus what you can already do and what the next section brings.

Choose your language

The nine biggest Duolingo courses, plus smaller ones. The whole checker runs in your browser — nothing is uploaded, stored or shared.

Your place on the learning path — Section 1 is Rookie, Section 8 is Navigator.
Leave it blank for a mid-section estimate, or type your unit number for a finer read on where you sit inside the level.
A typical number is filled in for your language. Change it if your section has more or fewer units.
First, the honest part: Duolingo has never published a table that says Section 4 equals A2. This checker is an approximate guide built from the community alignment and Duolingo’s own published milestones — and it uses the same mapping as our CEFR Level Test, so the two tools agree with each other.

How the checker works

  1. Choose your language. Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean or Mandarin — or another, smaller course.
  2. Choose your section. The section you are working through now, from 1 to 8. Add your unit number too, and the checker refines the estimate to early, middle or late in the level.
  3. Get your level. Your CEFR level and range, a can-do list for that level, what the section teaches, and the next section to aim for.

Every section, mapped to a CEFR level

This is the full table the checker works from. Check your level above and your row is highlighted.

A worked example: Tom and German

Tom is learning German. He has just started Section 6 and is on unit 25 of about 28. The checker puts him at B1 — almost finished with it, nearly B2. At B1 he can already cope with most travel situations and explain his plans. Section 7 is next, where B2 begins — and after Section 8 the app itself runs out of road, so anything beyond B2 has to come from outside Duolingo.

Questions about the section-to-CEFR map, answered

Does Duolingo publish an official section-to-CEFR table?

No. What Duolingo does publish are end-of-section milestones: the end of Section 3 is A1, the end of Section 4 is A2, the end of Section 6 is B1 and the end of Section 8 is B2. This checker describes the level of the material inside the section you are working through, which is the same reading our CEFR Level Test uses — the two agree to within one section at the boundaries.

Some guides say Section 3 is A1 and others say A2. Which is right?

Both — it depends on whether you mean the start or the end of the section. Section 3 finishes the A1 material and starts A2, so it sits on the boundary. That is why the checker shows Sections 3, 5 and 7 as ranges (A1–A2, A2–B1, B1–B2) instead of a single level.

Do the Japanese, Korean and Mandarin courses reach B2 too?

They are among Duolingo’s nine most-learned languages, and the biggest courses were extended to teach through B2. But the later sections of those courses were added more recently than the Spanish and French ones, so the B2 stretch is the newest — and least settled — part of them. The checker flags this when you pick one of those languages.

How does this checker relate to the CEFR Level Test?

They answer the same question from opposite directions. The test measures what you actually know and estimates your level from your answers; the checker maps where you are in the course to a level. Use both: if the test says B1 and the checker says your section is B1, the two agree — and if they disagree, the test is the one to trust, because it tested you.

I finished Section 8 — does that make me fluent?

It makes you someone who has covered B2 material, which is the highest level Duolingo teaches. Fluency is a bigger claim: B2 asks you to follow complex texts, argue a point and talk with native speakers without strain. An app of short exercises rarely builds that on its own, so add real reading, listening and conversation.

My course stops at Section 5. Have I missed something?

No. Smaller courses simply end earlier — not every language gets the full eight sections, and not every course reaches B2. Pick “Another language” in the checker: it caps the sections at 5 and treats the result as a rough estimate.

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DuolingoGuides is an independent guides site and is not connected to Duolingo. This checker is an approximate guide, not an official Duolingo statement — it cannot certify your level.