CEFRR common reference levels

Breakthrough
Is considered the lowest level of generative language use.

Vantage
The mataphor is that, having progressing slowly but steadily across the intermediate plateau.

Effective operational proficiency
Can express him/herself fluently and spontaneously

Waystage It is at this level that the person can respond to invitations and great people

Threshold
Reflects the threshold level specification for a visitor to a foreign country. He/ She has the ability to maintain interaction.

Mastery
Has a good command of idiomatic expressions and colloquialisms with awareness of connotative level of meaning.