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We offer an open and flexible teaching approach that takes into account the situation, aspirations and necessities of our students. Our aim is for students to use their Spanish in real situations (be it in a personal, public, professional or academic context). That is why we chose an integral and progressive acquisition of the language.
Our teaching plan takes this into account and has 9 skill levels, based on the extended European Reference Framework for learning languages.
On every level, professors use a great variety of learning situations, mixing oral communication and listening comprehension using audio and video, text reading, etc.
Every level has one part of its content dedicated to social, cultural and political life in Argentina and to Argentine and Latin-American history.
When our students arrive at the Academia Buenos Aires, our academic supervisor determines their skill levels by means of a short oral and written test. As a result of this test, and taking into account the needs of the student, his or her individual study program is determined. We offer group and individual classes. Students are allowed to mix their schedules with group and individual classes.
To get an idea of your own level, take the test in the “Test your Spanish” section of this website!
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 Level 1: Initial |
(A1 in the European Reference Framework)
Duration: approximately 40 hours
On this level, the student can participate in basic daily situations. He or she can exchange personal information and communicate about places and events. The student can talk with basic vocabulary about present, past and future events.
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| Level 2: Elementary |
(A2 in the European Reference Framework)
Duration: approximately 40 hours
On this level, the student can participate and intervene in basic daily situations. He or she can express habits in the present and past and can relate past actions. The student can give and receive instructions.
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| Level 3: Intermediate I |
(A2+ and B1 in the European Reference Framework)
Duration: approximately 40 hours
On this level the student can participate and make him/herself understood in a variety of situations, including debates and can resolve common problems of everyday’s life. The student can express desires, make hypotheses, give advice, orders etc.
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| Level 4: Intermediate II |
(B1+ in the European Reference Framework)
Duration: approximately 50 hours.
On this level the student develops an even better knowledge of communicating in common situations. The student can reproduce and refer to expressions and opinions of others, can express desires, needs, tastes, preferences, feelings and emotions.
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| Level 5: Intermediate III |
(A2+ and B1 in the European Reference Framework)
Duration: approximately 40 hours
On this level the student can participate and make him/herself understood in a variety of situations, including debates and can resolve common problems of everyday’s life. The student can express desires, make hypotheses, give advice, orders etc.
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| Level 6 - Advanced I |
(B2+ in the European Reference Framework)
Duration: approximately 60 hours
On this level the student uses increasingly complex structures, can negotiate, elaborates coherent discourses to express his point of view about complex subjects, can understand and evaluate specialized discourses (literary, scientific, journalistic) and can write reports, critical texts and opinion pieces.
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| Level 7 - Advanced II |
(C1 in the European Reference Framework)
Duration: approximately 80 hours
On this level the student already has a wide speech repertoire and his communication is fluid, spontaneous and adapted to all kinds of situations. He / she can read reports and essays of academic level and style, make summaries of different types of texts, present to an auditorium, argue using complex structures (express opinions, justify, give examples).
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| Level 8 - Superior |
(C1+ in the European Reference Framework)
Duration: approximately 80 hours
On this level the student can communicate in a complex manner and can fully understand everything and express everything he/she wants to express using the following techniques: emphasis, irony, reformulation, argumentation. He/she can use different levels and varieties of the Spanish language. He/she can tell stories and describe situations from multiple viewpoints.
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| Level 9 - Master level |
(C2 in the European Reference Framework)
Duration: approximately 120 hours
On this level the student can communicate in all situations with the highest degree of precision and high level of self-correction. He/she can express him/herself spontaneously and in great detail with natural fluidity.
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Spanish-language Institute