PMP Exam in Your Native Language
or in Englisch?

Questions and Answers to Language Options

Exam language options

The PMP certification exam is given in English by default. 

However, there are a number of language options that can be ordered when booking your exam seat.

Helpful: If you order one of these language versions, you can access the original English version of the exam question at any time during the exam.

  • Arabic
  • Bahasa (indonesian)
  • Chinese (traditional, simplified)
  • German
  • French
  • Hebrew
  • Italian

  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Polish
  • Portugese (brazilian)
  • Russian
  • Spanish
  • Turkish

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Exam in Englisch or your native language? Here is my recommendation:

We conduct PMP seminars in German and English, using English teaching materials for the German language classes. More about this below.

However, the question often arises whether to conduct the exam in the original language or with translation. Here is our recommendation:

  • If you speak English well enough:
    I recommend taking the exam in English. Doing the exam bilingually - your native language  with checking the original English version for unclear words and expressions - can slow you down and make you lose time. In one single language, you will be faster, and time matters during the exam.

  • If your command of the English language is not sufficient:
    Then, you should of course use the translation in your native language provided by PMI. Many candidates have used it and successfully passed the exam with it.

    The translated exam allows you to open the original English version of a question in a separate window if you have difficulties understanding the German translation of a word or an expression. Then, as you are prepared for the English exam, you can find the original wording of the text and go back to the translated text with a better understanding and answer the question. 

When do you know whether your English skills are sufficient? At the latest at the end of the preparatory seminar with many practice questions, you can assess this very well.

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Conversation Language during the Seminar

We perform seminars for the PMP-preparation in German and English. Both approaches, using first language or English, have specific advantages:    

Native language Seminar

Advantages:
  • For a native speaker, it is much less strenuous to follow the very demanding 35-h seminar in the native language.
  • Ongoing references during the seminar to English terms and their translations facilitate bilingual preparation.

Advantages:
  • One comes into contact with international participants.
  • Uniform language for seminar, seminar material and exam, if one wants to take the exam in English.

Corporate Seminar

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We assume, most trainers will be guided by the wishes of the customer.

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English Language Seminar Materials in a Native Language Seminar?

Experience shows that even for participants who want to take the exam in their native language, it makes sense to prepare with English-language materials:

  • During a test session using a translated, non-English exam, a question may be incomprehensible, e.g. because a technical term has been translated inaccurately from the English original. You can then call up the original English version and check. In such a case, it is of course advantageous if you have learned the English term in the seminar.
  • When a participant does not understand a certain English term in the seminar, the person can immediately ask the trainer.
  • Participants know by the end of the seminar at the latest whether it is better to take the exam in English or in their own language.
  • Those who take the exam in English will be better prepared with English materials.

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Reference literature

The main reference literature for the exam is also available in different languages:
  • PMBOK Guide 7th Edition
  • PMBOK Guide 6th Edition*
  • Agile Practice Guide

PMI members can download the English originals as well as the translations free of charge. Examples below are the German translations.

*: Translations for the Nov-2022 replacement of this book named "Process Groups: A Practice Guide" have been announced by PMI.

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Help on the way to exam success:

On the way to success in PMP certification, you need a professionally led seminar and also a lot of other help. 

You can find this help here.