Exam language
Can I take the Spanish driving theory exam in English?
Yes — for a category B (car) licence.
The DGT offers the category B theory exam in English: you choose the language on your exam application (form Mod. 04). The questions are translations of Spanish legal wording, so the Spanish terms are still what the exam is built on.
The languages the DGT offers
The official test is written in Spanish. For a category B licence, the DGT also offers it in English, French and German, and, where they are co-official, in Catalan, Basque, Galician or Valencian. You choose the language on the exam application.
The list comes from the DGT's exam application form (Mod. 04), as it read on October 31, 2026:
What about Russian, Arabic, Persian, Urdu or Chinese?
No. The DGT does not offer the exam in Russian, Arabic, Persian, Urdu or Chinese, so you will sit it in one of the languages it does offer. You can still prepare in your own: understand each rule in Russian, Arabic, Persian, Urdu or Chinese, and learn its Spanish wording beside it, because that wording is what the exam is written from.
What to do about it
- 1
Choose English as the exam language on your application.
- 2
Learn the Spanish wording of each rule beside the English — the questions are translated from it.
- 3
Rehearse in the official format: 30 questions, 3 errors allowed, 30 minutes.
The language bridge
Your Spanish grows with the course
The exam is not hard because of long words. It is hard because a few short phrases decide the answer. You learn them where they appear:
In the law
Queda prohibida, en todo caso, la colocación de vidrios tintados o coloreados no homologados.- What it means
- In every case — no exceptions
- Not filler like “anyway”: it rules out every exception.
- In your language
- Fitting non-approved tinted or coloured glass is banned in every case.
9 phrases like this and 96 exam terms, each taught beside the rule it belongs to — so by exam day the wording is familiar.
In the law
Queda prohibida, en todo caso, la colocación de vidrios tintados o coloreados no homologados.
The phrase
en todo caso
What it means
In every case — no exceptions
In your language
Fitting non-approved tinted or coloured glass is banned in every case.
More phrases like this
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