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A second exam is content: DELE A2 next to CIPLE A2

Spanish joined Portuguese on prep2go overnight. The partner's contractor wrote only content — questions, scenes, topics — and the rest ran as it already did.

The last note ended on a second language. On 14 October prep2go got the oral part of DELE A2, the Spanish exam, next to CIPLE A2. How it runs is not news: exactly like the Portuguese one, with the same doors, the same ticket, the same clock and the same protocol. What is worth writing down is what a second exam cost, and who paid for it.

13 October CIPLE A2 has been open to candidates for two days. There is no Spanish exam.14 October, 03:24 Our side: one command lays out the Spanish track; we write the language layer and a first ticket.03:37 DELE A2 is pinned for production, end to end, on that one ticket.07:15 The contractor opens a pull request: 43 files, all of them data. The contract check is green in 22 seconds.10:44 Merged and pinned: the full pool is in production.
What it isCIPLE A2 · PortugueseDELE A2 · Spanish
In production
LiveYes
Not yetYes, on one ticketYes, the full pool
Written by the partner's contractor
Interview questions92 in 12 areas
Not yet6, one ticket72 in 12 areas
Pictures15
Not yet111, ten shared with CIPLE
Discussion topics18
Not yet117
Written once per language, by us
ExaminerAna
Not yetMaría
Language and voiceEuropean Portuguese
Not yetCastilian Spanish
Phases on screenAbertura · Parte I–III · Encerramento
Not yetApertura · Parte I–III · Cierre
Measurement set checksEuropean forms only, no “você”
Not yet“Usted” kept, any variety accepted
The platform, the same for both
Entry and attemptsOne call per paid order, a single-use link
TicketDrawn once, items handed out by the part's clock
ProtocolThe same format and the same two doors
DeploymentThe same deployment and domain: nothing new to run
DELE A2 next to CIPLE A2 on 14 October 2026. Play walks through the day; times are Central European Summer Time.

What the partner wrote

The partner's contractor sent one pull request with one commit: 43 files and not a line of code. Seventy-two interview questions in twelve areas, seventeen topics for the discussion, ten new picture cards. Each of the ten is a CIPLE scene reused as it was — the same image, the same description for the examiner — with a Spanish caption, vocabulary and role play. Four scenes stayed behind because they are unmistakably Portuguese: two with azulejos, one with a Lisbon tram, one with sardines.

There was no key in it and no deployment step, because the product's repository has neither. The contract check, the same one the platform runs, was green 22 seconds after the pull request was opened. It was merged without a single review comment, and the pool was pinned for production 25 minutes later.

What they started from

Nobody copied a folder. One command lays out a new track: the language, the track, the course, the phase set and the examiner's prompt files, with every required name in place. The check is green on that skeleton before a single line of content, and whatever is left to fill is marked.

The part that is written once per language was ours, and it was in place before the contractor started: the language and its voice; the examiner, María, with her persona, her no-correction rules and her goodbye; the phase set; the measurement set; and one ticket, so the Spanish exam ran from entry to protocol within its first hour. Next to it lay a short memo of what is there and what to fill, and the Portuguese pool in the neighbouring folder as the example to follow.

What stayed as it was

Everything around the exam. prep2go lets a candidate in with the same call it makes for CIPLE; only the product code differs, and that code decides which exam opens. Attempts are counted the same way, the candidate lands in the same room, and the protocol comes back through the same two doors in the same format. There was no new project to deploy, no new domain and nothing new to run: the Spanish exam is a second track in a product that was already live.

Differences that are not translation

A language is more than its words, and the measurement set is where that shows. The Portuguese examiner is checked for European forms: nothing Brazilian in her speech, no "você". DELE accepts any variety of Spanish, so that check is not asked of María. She has to keep "usted" instead, even when the candidate switches to "tú" or "vos", and never remark on the variety the candidate speaks. The metrics that read the examiner's lines — a greeting, a goodbye, praise, a level named aloud, a step out of the role play, a word about herself in the right gender, "encantada" — got Spanish word lists of their own.

Each language also keeps its own edition. A change to a Spanish text does not move the Portuguese one, so a CIPLE protocol names the same edition of its texts the day after Spanish arrived as it did the day before.

What the second language found

Some faults show only when one product speaks two languages, and that night found three. The product's avatar was looked up per language: with two languages the lookup refused, a start-up guard swallowed the refusal, and the product would have lost its face without a word. The worker built its marker rules once, for a single language, and fell over at start-up with two. And with two exams running at once, a single storage timeout could lose a protocol; the write is now retried.

All three were fixed within the same hours, before the contractor's pull request arrived. In a test run two exams in two languages ran at the same time on one worker, each with its own voice, its own ticket and its own protocol.

What it means for the next exam

A third exam has the same shape: a command, a language layer written once, and content from whoever owns the exam. The cost of a new exam moves from engineering to content — questions, scenes, topics — which is the part the exam's owner knows best, and the part their time should go to.