B2 level is the threshold between a language learner and an independent user of the language. From this level on, you can deepen your knowledge and practice speaking, reading, and listening skills independently (without the guided help of a teacher) or in the context of a course.
If you reach B2 level, you can easily understand newspaper and magazine articles, or interviews, and can understand both the overall meaning of the text and secondary meanings such as irony, sarcasm, etc. You can understand without too much difficulty the main points of any news bulletin or program, play, interview, or documentary, even without subtitles. You can read reviews on various cultural topics and summarize this information in turn, make clear and detailed descriptions of many different subjects, and construct a sequence of logical arguments connecting ideas together.
You can speak for quite a long time and maintain the same pace, for example, making a presentation, without having to pause to look up for words because you already have a vocabulary rich enough to be able to use synonyms or paraphrases when necessary or to correct yourself if mistakes have led to misunderstandings. You are already using complex grammatical structures which can give a different meaning to the sentences you use, such as temporal elements in a story or inferences in certain hypothetical situations.
