{
  "seo": {
    "title": "Language Framework Equivalencies",
    "description": "CEFR, CLB, ACTFL, IELTS: our sourced correspondence charts between language assessment frameworks, so you can read a level from one system in another.",
    "keywords": "language framework equivalencies, CEFR correspondence, level conversion chart, CEFR CLB, language level conversion"
  },
  "hero": {
    "title": "Language framework equivalencies",
    "subtitle": "The same language level reads differently depending on the framework used. Our correspondence charts — sourced from alignment studies and official documents — let you move from one system to another without losing the nuance."
  },
  "intro": "The European CEFR, Canada's CLB, the North American ACTFL scale and test scores such as IELTS all measure language proficiency — but they were built separately, for different purposes. Correspondences between them do exist, they are documented, and they are more nuanced than the conversion charts usually found online. Every page below cites its sources and states plainly where no official correspondence exists.",
  "cardsTitle": "Our correspondence charts",
  "cards": [
    {
      "title": "CEFR ↔ CLB (NCLC)",
      "description": "The reference chart between Canadian and European levels, based on North & Piccardo (2019): all 12 CLB benchmarks, their documented nuances, Express Entry thresholds, and Quebec's separate scale.",
      "highlight": "CLB 7 is B1+, not B2",
      "cta": "View the chart",
      "id": "cefr-clb"
    },
    {
      "title": "CEFR ↔ ACTFL",
      "description": "The official correspondence chart published by ACTFL — in fact two charts, one for comprehension and one for expression, and they don't tell the same story. Plus the decisive caveat: the correspondence only holds in one direction.",
      "highlight": "Superior is C1.2 in comprehension, C2 in speaking",
      "cta": "View both charts",
      "id": "cefr-actfl"
    },
    {
      "title": "CEFR ↔ IELTS",
      "description": "The official correspondence between IELTS bands and CEFR levels — with a confidence level for every row. IELTS refuses the exact table and names three borderline bands itself: this chart shows them instead of smoothing them over.",
      "highlight": "IELTS won't settle it: bands 5, 6.5 and 8 are grey zones",
      "cta": "View the chart and its grey zones",
      "id": "cefr-ielts"
    },
    {
      "title": "CEFR ↔ TOEFL",
      "description": "ETS's official correspondences between TOEFL iBT scores and CEFR levels — for both scoring systems in use since the January 21, 2026 switch: the new CEFR-native 1–6 scale and the historical 0–120 scale.",
      "highlight": "ETS switched scales in 2026: two systems coexist",
      "cta": "View both systems' correspondences",
      "id": "cefr-toefl"
    }
  ],
  "closing": "These pages are written and checked against primary sources: alignment studies, official agency documents and published frameworks. Where a correspondence has not been officially established, we say so rather than estimate it.",
  "descriptorsCrossLink": {
    "text": "Looking for the official CEFR descriptors themselves, boundary by boundary?",
    "label": "Browse the descriptor library"
  }
}