Babbel and Cambridge English launches online language test
- Oliver Lui
- Sep 15, 2017
- 2 min read
Cambridge English has partnered with the maker of Babbel, the world’s top-grossing language app, to launch the Babbel English Test. This online language assessment, utilizing the expert knowledge and experience of the Cambridge English organisation, allows adult learners of English to assess their listening and reading skills online from level A1 (beginner) up to and including B1 (intermediate).
Test takers will earn a certificate of achievement, which can be downloaded and used to demonstrate English skills to potential employers, for self-assessment, when warming up for an exam, or to enhance an online career profile.
The Babbel English Test is available now as part of the Babbel back to work bundles for HK$554, and will be released as a standalone test in October 2017 at a cost of HK$366.
The Babbel English Test features a set of around 70 different questions per session, each testing a variety of listening and reading comprehension skills. Like Babbel’s lesson content, these tasks reflect authentic, real-life situations. These include, for example, images of posters and signs, listening tasks featuring recordings of speakers with different accents, as well as radio-broadcasts and real conversations.
The exam itself has hundreds of potential variations and will never be the same twice, no matter how often it is taken.
Founded in 2007, Babbel is the world’s number one language learning app with more than one million current paying subscribers. At the core of Babbel is an empirically proven method that empowers second language learners to speak confidently.
All learning content is tailored to the user’s native language and is based on authentic examples that can be put to immediate use. This makes Babbel the shortest path to a real-life conversation, with 73% of users believing they can have a short, simple conversation in their new language within five hours of using the app.
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