AlmiSwiss · fide practice for permits & naturalisation
Switzerland asks B1 spoken and A2 written for naturalisation — a federal minimum, not the answer to your case, because your canton and commune decide and can ask for more. Original fide practice in German or French, banded per skill against the real criteria, so you know exactly where you stand.
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Sample readiness · fide German
SampleA readiness band per skill against the real criteria — never an invented official result.
Illustrative example — not a real result.
fide is set and marked by recognised test centres, and your case is decided by your canton and commune — or, if you are married to a Swiss citizen, by SEM. We are none of those, so anyone promising you a guaranteed official outcome from an online simulation is guessing. AlmiSwiss does the honest thing instead: we estimate your readiness from your practice and map it into clear bands (Clear or Borderline) against the real criteria.
We band each skill separately, and never average them.That is not a design preference — Switzerland asks a full CEFR level more of your speaking than your writing, so a single blended number would read as “on track” for someone who is short on the one skill that actually decides it. The same asymmetry catches people on the five-year C permit, which asks B1 spoken too.
One principle runs through it: tell you the truth— including when the truth is that we are not what you need. fide will not get you into a university, and no website can tell you your own canton's bar. Confirm that with your cantonal migration authority. We are not affiliated with SEM, with any canton, or with a fide test centre, and none of them endorse this site.
The figure you find everywhere — B1 spoken, A2 written — is real, and it comes from SEM. It is also a federal minimum. For an ordinary naturalisation your canton and communedecide, and some ask for more; the facilitated route for spouses of Swiss citizens is decided by SEM instead. Which of the three national languages applies is your canton's call as well, not yours — and a few cantons are officially bilingual, so it can come down to your commune.
Two things follow that catch people out. Your speaking is asked a full level above your writing — and the five-year C permit asks B1 spoken too, so “the permit needs less” is wrong on the deciding skill. And there is no national civics test — cantons and communes each decide, so nobody can honestly quote you a pass mark for one. See exactly what is and isn't published, then practise against the real thing. We help you prepare fairly — never to shortcut the process.
Reading, Listening and the society knowledge questions are auto-marked and free to practise. Writing and Speaking are graded with honest AI feedback against each exam's real criteria.
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Built for what your canton actually asks — Naturalisation (fide at the federal minimum — B1 spoken, A2 written), the C permit (lower, but route-dependent: B1 spoken on the five-year route, the same as citizenship), recognised certificates, and canton local knowledge. In German or French — whichever your canton uses, because that is not your choice to make.
Honest readiness, not a fake score — Reading and Listening are auto-marked to a clear per-skill band. Writing and Speaking get AI feedback labelled an estimate. We band each skill separately rather than averaging them, because the levels are not symmetrical — speaking is asked a full level above writing, and one blended number would hide exactly the gap that decides your case.
100% original material — Every reading text, audio transcript, writing task and speaking prompt is written from scratch around real situations — the Gemeinde counter, the insurer, the landlord, the parents' evening — never copied from a real test.
We tell you what we can't do — fide is not a university admission test, so we don't sell it as one. There is no national Swiss civics test, so we don't invent one or show you a pass mark for it. And we can't tell you your canton's own bar — only your commune can.
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Practice at your level in the language your canton uses, honest readiness estimates, 100% original material — for $12/month with a 7-day free trial.