Certificat de français des affaires (CFA)
Prove your workplace French in 45 minutes.
Forty multiple-choice questions on the French people actually use at work — emails, meetings, reports, negotiations. You finish with a score, a CEFR level from A1 to C2, and a certificate you can put in front of an employer the same hour.Forty multiple-choice questions, a CEFR level from A1 to C2, and a certificate the moment you finish.
About this test
The test measures how you handle French at work — the wording that decides whether a request sounds reasonable, an email lands, or a report is understood the way you meant it.
Forty questions, drawn from four areas and set in ordinary workplace situations.
- Business vocabularyContrats, budgets, délais, expressions courantes
- Grammar and structureTenses, subjunctive, agreement, connectors
- Reading comprehensionEmails, reports, and what was implied rather than said
- Workplace communicationRegistre, formules de politesse, tone in negotiation
Your answers produce a CFA score out of 100 and the CEFR level that goes with it, from A1 to C2. The test covers the whole scale, so you never have to pick a level before you start — the result is what tells you where you stand.
the six levels of the Common European Framework, defined by the Council of Europe and used as the reference for language ability worldwide — which is what makes your result readable to an employer who has never heard of any particular test.
Source: Council of EuropeThe forty questions are multiple choice and entirely text-based. There is no listening or speaking section, so you need neither a microphone nor speakers — it runs in a browser on a computer, a tablet or a phone, and a stable connection is the only requirement.
There is no time limit. Most people finish in about 45 minutes, and you can move back through the questions and change any answer before you submit.
The moment you submit, you get your CFA score, the CEFR level it corresponds to, and a personal certificate as a downloadable PDF. Every certificate carries a unique ID that an employer, a recruiter or an admissions office can check on our verification page.
Your access does not expire and retakes cost nothing, so you can sit the test again months later to show that your level has moved on.
See it before you sit it
One question at a time, in your browser, on any device — and your result the moment you submit.
- Text onlyNo mic needed
- Any devicePhone to laptop
- Go back anytimeFree retakes
- Instant resultScore and level
Certificate
Yours instantly,
verifiable forever
- Instantas a digital PDFPDF download
- Score & levelboth are printed
- Lifetimeno expiry
- ShareableLinkedIn & CV
- Verifiableunique ID number
Ratings & feedback
Rated 4.7/5.0 by our users
The average rating from users who’ve taken this test.
"Exactement le français du bureau : courriels, comptes rendus, négociations."
"I work with a Paris office and needed something on paper. Forty-five minutes, done."
"Les formules de politesse et le registre — c'est là que j'ai perdu des points."
"Recruiters asked for a French level. Now there is a verifiable certificate behind it."
"J'ai passé le test général d'abord, puis celui-ci. Celui-ci est nettement plus exigeant."
"Aucun microphone, aucun rendez-vous. Je l'ai fait un soir chez moi."
"My employer accepted it for our internal record without a discussion."
"Le certificat arrive immédiatement en PDF, avec un numéro vérifiable."
"Good value. I would have paid more for something a hiring manager recognises."
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Your level
One test,
the whole CEFR scale
Most exams assess a slice of the range, so you have to know roughly where you sit before you book one. This test covers all six levels in a single sitting — which is why the result is a level, not a pass or a fail.
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Familiar everyday phrases and very basic expressions.
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Simple, routine exchanges on familiar topics.
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The main points of clear standard input met at work.
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Complex text and technical discussion in your field.
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Fluent and spontaneous, flexible for professional use.
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Virtually everything read with ease, including nuance.
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Checkout takes a minute — the first question is one click later.
Multiple choice, all text, no time pressure.
Your CFA score and the CEFR level it corresponds to, the moment you submit.
Download the PDF, add it to your CV and LinkedIn, or send the verification link.
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