Foreign Language Certification?

Employers will want to see results, and will subject you to examination. I think just saying you are fluent on your Resume is more than enough.

Cambridge Proficiency Of English.

Depends on the language.

For English, there is the Cambridge Main Suite – the PET, KET, FCE (First Certificate of English), CAE (Certificate of Advanced English) or the CPE (Certificate of Proficiency in English).

If (as I strongly suspect) you’re talking about certification in a language other than English, you’ll need to give us more details, i.e. which language.

If it’s a European language, I’d suggest that the credible qualifications will be mapped to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.

Michigan University also has something for foreign language speaker. ECPE is the certificate.

I agree with @dpworkin . Also, an employer will see on your transcripts the language (s) and level (s) that you have completed according to the college. I wouldn’t worry about outside certificates.

@rahm_sahriv The problem is that I’m learning these languages outside of college.

@ everybody else: Totally slipped my mind to mention that I’m talking about Spanish and Russian.

You will not learn a language in a week. No school you give you a certificate for that. If you find one that will it doesn’t worth it. If the only time you want to spend on learning a language is one week, then, you are not going to learn anything. You can buy one if that suits your needs. There are lots of certifications that will only require a tuition. To learn a language you will have to spend at least 2 months in a country where it is spoken. Sorry but there is no other way, if you really want to learn.

Different languages have different tests, for example, I know that the recognized proficiency test in Japanese language is the JLPT.

For Spanish, you want the DELE (Issued by the Cervantes Institute and the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science)

For Russian, TORFL (Issued by the Russian Ministry of Education) seems appropriate.

Both exams are independent of language schools, and are awarded based on examination performance rather than receiving an internally-issued certificate from a language school, which is very common practice, but ultimately pointless – the schools’ certificates are almost always internally assessed and not externally moderated, and hence are not very trustworthy.

@the100thmonkey : Awesome! Thanks!