LANGUAGE LEVELS:
SA Cordoba

Here is a breakdown of the different levels the Spanish language school uses and what can be accomplished at each level. Use this as a general guide. There is flexibility in what can be studied depending on the type of course you decide to take.

Please note that additional info (prices, activities, etc) are found to the right of this pages.

Elementary level : 40 classes

For Spanish students considered beginners (without previous knowledge) or that in the diagnostic examination show some initial knowledge of the Spanish language.

Once this level is completed, the student will be able to:

• Introduce himself/herselff and give personal information (name, age, nationality, address, work, customs, routines and amusements).
• Describe objects and persons.
• Ask for information and to understand simple answers to requests.
• Ask for permission and favors.
• Invite and to offer something to someone.
• Accept or to refuse invitations politely.
• Give and to understand simple instructions.
• Interact in a situation of buying and selling.
• Express likes and dislikes, agreement and disagreement.

The student will be able to use the Present Simple Tense.

Intermediate level 1 : 40 classes

This course is for those Spanish students who in the placement evaluation credit an elementary level.

Once this level is completed, the Spanish student will be able to:

• Report past facts.
• Understand simple oral and written texts on the history of Buenos Aires.
• Speak on the telephone and taking into consideration the Argentine conventions in formal and informal situations.
• Enunciate complaints.
• Make conjectures.

The student will be able to use different forms of the Past and the Simple Tenses.

Intermediate level 2 : 40 classes

For Spanish students that show an intermediate 1 level in the examination.

Once this level is completed, the Spanish student will be in able to:

• Interact in discussions expressing opinions and using strategies of persuasion.
• Formulate requests and recommendations in a complex way.
• Express wishes and feelings using complex phrases.
• Understand texts of opinion of the written journalism and television or radial newscasters.

The Spanish student will be able use the Present Tense of the Subjunctive and utilize some Conditional grammatical structures.

Intermediate level 3 : 40 classes

For Spanish students who test out at an intermediate level 2 in the diagnostic examination.

The completion of this level will allow students to:

• Formulate hypothesis and conjectures in relation with present, past and future facts.
• Formulate requests and recommendations in a complex way.
• Express wishes and feelings using complex phrases.
• Understand literary texts of Argentine authors with the help of the teacher.
• Understand oral and written texts on Argentine history, with the teachers assistance.

The Spanish student will be able to utilize the past tense of the Subjunctive along with additional understanding of Conditional grammatical structures.

Advanced level 1 : 80 classes

For Spanish students who test out at an intermediate level 3 in the diagnostic examination. Besides the correct grammatical forms, a student of this level should be able to produce oral and writing texts adapted to the communicative situation and to understand native speakers no matter which regional variety of Spanish they speak.

Having finished this level, the Spanish student will be able to:

• Use formal structures in oral and written texts.
• Carry out a formal oral explanation on a topic of interest for an extended period of time.
• Produce coherent and correctly written non fictional texts on topics of interest, making a correct use of punctuation.
• Make notes while listening to a native speaker who is present or whose voice is recorded).
• Carry our an argument in oral and written forms.
• Understand informal, regional uses of Argentine Spanish (regional expressions and slang).
• Understand and to critically perceive the messages of the mass media.
• To read complex texts (such as scientific texts, journalistic editorials, notes of opinion, notes of interest, history texts, literary texts).

Advanced level 2 : 80 classes

For Spanish students who have reached a good level of oral and written production of the Spanish language and are able to read and to analyze complex fictional and non fictional texts. This level is for Spanish students interested in completing their studies of the Spanish language and reaching a high level of knowledge of Argentine history and literature.

To complete the quantity of classes of this level, students will be able to choose the following courses:

• Argentine History 1: from the conquest to 1880 (40 classes).
• Argentine History 2: from 1880 to the popular democracies (40 classes).
• Argentine Literature 1: introduction to the Argentine literature of the 19th century (20 classes).
• Argentine Literature 2: introduction to the Argentine literature of the 20th century (20 classes).
• Argentine Literature 3:poetic vanguards of the 20th century (20 classes).
• Argentine Art and literature (20 classes).