Twenty questions, about five minutes, and an honest estimate of where your Lithuanian sits on the CEFR scale; from first phrases to near-native.
Labas, aš ___ Ana. O tu?
No feedback until the end, on purpose: guessing from the corrections would skew your result. Nothing is saved or sent anywhere.
The test places you between two levels of the CEFR, the six-level scale used by universities, employers and official certificates across Europe. A range is the honest output of twenty questions: adaptive tests such as the Oxford Placement Test ask 40 to 45 items, and DIALANG around thirty per skill, precisely because pinning a single level takes far more evidence.
| Level | Name | What you can do |
|---|---|---|
| A1 | Beginner | Introduce yourself, order, ask prices, survive a short trip. |
| A2 | Elementary | Talk about your day, your past and your plans in simple sentences. |
| B1 | Intermediate | Hold a conversation on familiar topics and travel without falling back on English. |
| B2 | Upper intermediate | Argue a point, follow films and news, work in the language. |
| C1 | Advanced | Express yourself precisely on abstract topics and catch implied meaning. |
| C2 | Proficient | Irony, register, specialised texts: near-native command. |
Lithuanian preserves many old Indo-European features: seven cases, two grammatical genders with adjective agreement, and a rich participle system. Stress can move between forms of the same word, and some stressed syllables also distinguish pitch accents. Spelling is relatively regular, but ordinary text does not mark lexical stress or pitch accent. Learning complete phrases helps you connect endings with their meaning.
People search for all three, and they are not quite the same thing. A proficiency test measures what you can do against a public standard and usually ends in a certificate someone else will read — State Lithuanian language exam is one. A placement test exists to put you in the right class, so it is short, unofficial and only has to be right to within one level. A level test is the everyday name for the same thing when nobody is enrolling you in anything.
This page is a placement test in the technical sense: it estimates your Lithuanian level on the CEFR scale in about five minutes, tells you which two levels you sit between, and hands you nothing you could show an employer. If you need that, sit one of the exams above. If you need to know which book to open tonight, this is the right tool — and it is free, with no account and no email.
Levels are not evenly spaced: A1 is a few weekends, C1 is a few years. The ranges below are guided-study hours counted cumulatively from zero — orders of magnitude, not promises. They are scaled from the U.S. Foreign Service Institute, which puts professional working proficiency for an English speaker at roughly 1,100 classroom hours in Lithuanian. Those are hours of intensive, supervised classes, with selected students: read them as a floor rather than a forecast.
| Level | Hours from zero | What it buys you |
|---|---|---|
| A1 | 100–150 h | Introduce yourself, order, ask prices, survive a short trip. |
| A2 | 250–350 h | Talk about your day, your past and your plans in simple sentences. |
| B1 | 500–650 h | Hold a conversation on familiar topics and travel without falling back on English. |
| B2 | 850–1,100 h | Argue a point, follow films and news, work in the language. |
| C1 | 1,300–1,600 h | Express yourself precisely on abstract topics and catch implied meaning. |
| C2 | 1,800 h+ | Irony, register, specialised texts: near-native command. |
Want the same maths for your own weekly schedule? Our time calculator turns hours into months, and applies a discount if you already speak a related language.
Learn nouns inside phrases where the case is visible; į darbą, turguje, be cukraus; since a nominative-only vocabulary has to be rebuilt seven times over. Work on stress from the beginning: it moves between forms of the same word, and fixing it later is far harder than learning it with each word now.
Two things move you up. Negation normally changes an accusative direct object to the genitive, while other verb-government patterns remain; the genitive can also express a partial quantity, which is far more often than English prepares you for. And verbs take fixed cases that no rule predicts. Collect the sentences you hesitated over this week, correct them once, and drill them aloud until the endings arrive automatically.
Participles are what separate written Lithuanian from spoken. Constructions such as atsižvelgdamas į or išlaikę egzaminą studentai compress a whole clause into a word, and formal writing uses them constantly. Read 15min or LRT, mark every participial phrase you would have expressed with a subordinate clause, and rebuild it around your own subject.
A placement quiz and a certificate answer different questions. This one tells you what to study next, in five minutes, for free. The exams below tell an employer or a university what you can do, on paper, for a fee and a scheduled date. Use the first to prepare for the second.
| Exam | Awarded by | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| State Lithuanian language exam | National Agency for Education, Lithuania | The state language proficiency examinations use categories corresponding to CEFR levels. Choose the category required for your purpose and check the current requirements with the National Agency for Education. |
This page lists the official state examination. Course certificates and university placement tests can serve different purposes; check directly with the institution that will assess your application.
Because the extra thirty would buy you less than you think. A fixed-form test gains precision slowly: what actually separates a serious placement test is adaptivity — picking each question based on how you answered the last one, so nobody wastes time on items far below or far above their level. Without that, doubling the length mostly doubles the boredom, and an abandoned test measures nothing at all.
So this one is deliberately short and deliberately modest: it brackets you between two levels, tells you which skill is dragging, and sends you back to studying. If you need a single certified level on paper, sit a State Lithuanian language exam exam. If you need to know whether to open a B1 or a B2 book tonight, five minutes here is enough.
How accurate is this Lithuanian level test?
This short written quiz gives a rough indication of your level, not a certificate or a validated CEFR placement. It samples grammar, vocabulary and reading, but does not assess listening, speaking or writing. Use an official examination or a fuller assessment when you need proof of proficiency.
Is Lithuanian close to Latvian or to Russian?
Latvian is its closest living relative and the other surviving Baltic language, and even so the two are not mutually intelligible. Russian shares the case logic through a distant common ancestor and a good deal of borrowed vocabulary, but the systems differ in detail, so the transfer helps your intuition rather than your accuracy.
What is the CEFR scale?
The Common European Framework of Reference splits ability into six levels: A1 and A2 for the basic user, B1 and B2 for the independent user, C1 and C2 for the proficient user. Lithuanian state language categories are mapped onto the same scale.
Do I need to worry about pitch accent?
Not for this test, which is written. In speech it matters more than learners expect, since stress shifts between the forms of a single word and the wrong placement is immediately audible, though rarely a barrier to being understood.
How is my level calculated?
Each question is worth the rank of its level, from 1 point for A1 to 6 for C2. A wrong answer gives back a third of that weight, exactly what random guessing earns on a four-option question, so guessing is worth nothing on average and skipping costs nothing extra.
Is the test free? Do I need an account?
Completely free, no signup, no email. Your answers stay in your browser and nothing is sent anywhere.
I got B1. What should I do next?
B1 in Lithuanian is a real achievement and usually means the cases slow you down in real time. The way up is volume of real sentences with native audio and spaced repetition, built around what you personally need to say; which is exactly how Hyperpolyglot works.
Can I retake the test?
As often as you like, but the questions never change, so an immediate retake measures memory rather than Lithuanian. Leave a few weeks between attempts if you want a meaningful comparison.
Check how long Lithuanian will take you, see how close it is to languages you already speak, or take the which language should I learn quiz.
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