Spanish Placement Exam

The Spanish Placement Exam is a requirement for all students who wish to enroll in Spanish courses. Its primary purpose is to evaluate each student's current proficiency in the language and to place them in the level that best corresponds to their skills. By accurately determining language ability, the exam helps students avoid repeating material they already know while also preventing them from entering a course that may be too advanced. The exam will be administered online via Zoom.

Each candidate will receive a personalized link with the date and time of their exam session. Based on their performance, students will be assigned to the appropriate course level within the Spanish program.

Students are invited to complete the online registration form to secure their place. Information about the exam fee will be provided on the registration page.

Beginner Spanish: Level A1.1  

Build the confidence to start communicating in Spanish from your very first lessons.

This course is designed for complete beginners who want to develop a practical foundation in Spanish and begin using the language in real-life situations.

You will learn how to greet and introduce yourself, exchange personal information, describe yourself and others, express likes and preferences, talk about daily routines and household activities, describe what is happening around you, and speak about family and people close to you. The course also introduces simple ways to talk about past situations and compare the past with the present. 

Learning is centered on communication rather than memorization. Through conversations, interviews, listening activities, role-plays, short presentations, reading, and practical tasks, you will gradually develop your ability to understand and use Spanish with greater independence. Listening, speaking, reading, and writing are integrated throughout the course. By the end of A1.1, you will have the foundation needed to communicate in basic everyday situations and continue confidently into Spanish A1.2.

Beginner Spanish: Level A1.2 

Move beyond the basics and start using Spanish to talk about your everyday life with greater confidence and detail.

Building on the foundation developed in A1.1, this course helps you communicate more clearly about what you normally do, what you did, what is happening now, and how you organize your daily life. You will learn to talk about days, months, dates and time, describe your daily routine, and connect activities to specific moments. 

You will also expand your Spanish to describe your home and immediate surroundings. You will learn how to identify rooms, furniture and appliances, describe objects and their characteristics, explain where things are located, and give a more complete description of your house. 

The emphasis remains on real communication rather than memorizing isolated grammar rules. Through conversations, listening activities, interviews, practical tasks, descriptions and short presentations, you will develop your listening, speaking, reading and writing skills while becoming increasingly independent in Spanish. 

By the end of A1.2, you will be able to connect simple ideas about what you do, when you do it, what you did, what is happening now, where things are and what they are like, giving you a stronger foundation for moving into Spanish A2.1. 

Intermediate Spanish: Level A2.1 

Take the next step from basic communication to more connected and confident Spanish. 

At A2.1, you begin to move beyond short, isolated sentences and learn how to connect ideas, explain reasons, compare situations, and communicate with greater clarity in everyday contexts. You will use Spanish to talk about places, past experiences, recent changes, future plans, community life, transportation, routes, and directions.

You will learn how to describe a place as it is now and how it was before, talk about things that happened and experiences you have had, explain what has changed, and discuss what you plan to do in the future. You will also develop practical language for asking about services, recommending transportation, comparing options, giving directions, and helping someone navigate through a community.

The course continues to emphasize communication through meaningful tasks. Through conversations, interviews, maps, problem-solving activities, listening tasks, short presentations, and real-life scenarios, you will strengthen your listening, speaking, reading, and writing while learning to organize your ideas more naturally.

By the end of A2.1, you will be able to combine past, present, and future in simple but connected messages, explain choices, describe changes, give practical information, and communicate with greater independence in familiar real-life situations.

Intermediate Spanish: Level A2.2 

Learn to express more than what you think — explain why, compare options, and make decisions in Spanish.

At A2.2, you begin to develop more flexible and connected communication. You will learn how to give reasons, explain consequences, express preferences, compare alternatives, make polite requests, negotiate, recommend options, and adapt your decisions when circumstances change. 

The course uses practical situations related to shopping, markets, food, eating habits, restaurants, prices, quantities, preferences, and everyday decisions. You will learn how to ask for information, compare products and services, manage a budget, make recommendations, solve common problems, and explain why one option may be better than another. You will also strengthen your ability to talk about past experiences, changes in habits, future decisions, and hypothetical situations. Instead of simply saying what you prefer, you will learn to explain your choice, consider alternatives, and respond when new information changes the situation. 

Learning is highly interactive and task-based. Through negotiations, role-plays, problem-solving activities, information-gap tasks, comparisons, restaurant and market simulations, and decision-making challenges, you will develop greater spontaneity and confidence in real communication. 

By the end of A2.2, you will be able to communicate with greater independence, justify your opinions, compare and recommend options, negotiate simple situations, respond to unexpected changes, and explain what you would or would have done in different circumstances—preparing you for the transition to Spanish B1.1. 

Advanced Spanish: Level B1.1

Move from short answers to more developed, organized, and confident communication in Spanish.

At B1.1, you begin to express yourself in greater depth. Instead of relying on one- or two-sentence responses, you will learn how to develop an idea, explain reasons, provide examples, introduce contrasts, react to other people's opinions, and maintain a topic across several exchanges. 

The course explores themes connected to lifestyle, changes in habits, free time, personal experiences, projects, goals, recommendations, and social and cultural events. You will learn how to explain how a situation changed, describe what happened before an important event, talk about what you have experienced, discuss future projects, give advice, and participate in planning activities with others. 

You will also strengthen your ability to tell more complete stories by distinguishing between background, previous events, main actions, reactions, and results. At the same time, you will learn to express wishes, recommendations, needs, and evaluations more naturally as your range of Spanish expands. 

Learning is highly interactive. Through interviews, discussions, round-table conversations, storytelling, collaborative projects, negotiations, recommendations, and problem-solving tasks, you will practice responding spontaneously, asking follow-up questions, defending decisions, and adapting your ideas when new information appears. 

By the end of B1.1, you will be able to develop and sustain a message, narrate experiences with clearer time relationships, justify opinions, give recommendations, negotiate decisions, and participate more independently in personal and social conversations, creating a strong foundation for Spanish B1.2.

Advanced Spanish: Level B1.2

Go beyond expressing your own ideas and learn to respond, argue, negotiate, and build meaning with others in Spanish.

At B1.2, communication becomes more interactive and less predictable. You will learn how to develop and defend a position, respond directly to other people's arguments, ask for clarification, recognize different perspectives, express partial agreement or disagreement, and reformulate your ideas when new information changes the discussion. 

The course explores social norms, communication and courtesy, cultural traditions, different perspectives, misunderstandings, intercultural conflicts, values, social dilemmas, and experiences that can change the way we see a situation. You will learn to distinguish between facts and interpretations, understand why the same behavior may be viewed differently, and communicate more effectively when perspectives do not immediately agree. 

You will also develop the language needed to express reactions and recommendations, discuss uncertainty, analyze hypothetical situations, consider alternatives and consequences, mediate disagreements, and negotiate possible solutions. The goal is not simply to express an opinion, but to listen critically, respond to another position, support your ideas, acknowledge valid points, and adapt your message when necessary. 

Learning is highly interactive. Through structured debates, panel discussions, round tables, case studies, cultural comparisons, conflict mediation, collaborative projects, presentations, and decision-making activities, you will take a more active role as speaker, listener, moderator, mediator, or participant in a group discussion. 

By the end of B1.2, you will be able to interpret different perspectives, argue and support a position, respond to counterarguments, discuss hypothetical possibilities, mediate disagreements, make reasoned decisions, and reformulate your ideas with greater independence—preparing you for the transition to Spanish B2.1. 

Upper-Advanced Spanish Level B2.1

Learn to communicate with greater precision, nuance, and control in complex social, academic, and professional situations.

At B2.1, you move beyond simply expressing and defending an opinion. You will learn how to evaluate evidence, distinguish facts from interpretations, recognize the limits of a conclusion, consider alternative explanations, respond to objections, and reformulate your position when new information appears. 

The course develops advanced communication through situations involving argumentation, evidence, critical analysis, formal interaction, negotiation, reconstruction of events, contrasting versions, and decision-making. You will work with information that may be incomplete or uncertain and learn how to communicate different degrees of certainty, probability, inference, and doubt with greater accuracy. You will also strengthen your ability to reconstruct complex events, report what other people said or thought, analyze past decisions, explore alternative outcomes, and discuss what might have happened under different circumstances. These skills allow you to move naturally between narration, analysis, interpretation, and evaluation. 

Learning is highly interactive and increasingly independent. Through debates, hearings, committees, case analyses, simulations, negotiations, formal meetings, presentations, and collaborative projects, you will practice presenting evidence, challenging conclusions, responding to counterarguments, adjusting your register, negotiating agreements, and defending proposals before others. 

By the end of B2.1, you will be able to argue with greater precision, evaluate information critically, express uncertainty and inference, reconstruct and compare different versions of events, analyze hypothetical alternatives, negotiate in formal contexts, and adapt or reformulate your position when the evidence changes—preparing you for Spanish B2.2. 

Upper-Advanced Spanish Level B2.2

Use Spanish with greater precision, flexibility, and independence—even when the conversation becomes complex or unpredictable.

At B2.2, the goal is no longer simply to learn more grammar. You will learn how to select, combine, and adapt the language you already know according to your purpose, the level of certainty, the audience, the context, and the effect you want your message to have. You will also develop the ability to recognize when a statement is too strong, unclear, or inappropriate and reformulate it without losing control of the interaction. 

The course focuses on advanced communication, critical positioning, complex hypotheses, multiple perspectives, negotiation, mediation, register, and decision-making. You will learn to distinguish confirmed information from inference or interpretation, express exactly how certain you are, manage complex relationships between past, present, and future, and adjust your language when circumstances change. 

You will also learn how to integrate information from several sources, synthesize different voices, reconstruct events from multiple perspectives, adapt the same message for different audiences, and mediate complex information without losing important conditions, exceptions, or degrees of certainty. 

Communication at this level becomes more spontaneous and demanding. Through case analyses, panels, debates, interviews, negotiations, complaints, simulations, source synthesis, multiperspective reconstructions, mediation tasks, and problem-solving activities, you will practice handling interruptions, unexpected questions, objections, changing conditions, and shifts in register while maintaining control of your message. 

By the end of B2.2, you will be able to synthesize, mediate, adapt, negotiate, reformulate, self-correct, and sustain developed communication with a high degree of independence in complex social, academic, and professional situations. This level completes the A1–B2.2 learning sequence while preparing you to continue toward even higher levels of proficiency.