Study / Learn Spanish in Buenos Aires Argentina
Study / Learn Spanish in Buenos Aires
A.I.E. offers the best teachers of Argentina. All teachers are full-time teachers of Spanish with several years' experience in teaching Spanish to foreigners. A.I.E. is the only Spanish School where all teachers have Masters degree in Education or Literature from University of Buenos Aires. Our team is exclusively composed by professionals specialized on Language teaching.
All our teachers are Argentine native speakers of Spanish, trained and experienced in teaching Spanish to foreigners, which is of great importance for the interaction with the students.

	Our Spanish Courses are intensive training programs at all levels: from beginner to advanced level. As they are taught considering 8 levels, they are suitable both for students who wish an introduction to the Spanish language as well as for those who like to improve their knowledge of it. Students interested in group classes must first take a placement test (free of charge) in order to determine the Spanish level and the appropriate group. Students can take this test as little as one hour before joining their first class.

Note: for students without previous knowledge of Spanish language, it is not necessary to take the placement test because we already know their Spanish level. We have a 8-level Spanish system. Each level is 40 hours long (the equivalent of 2 weeks of group classes). Levels are carefully organized and placement test is very important so that we can provide the best service. Each level is accomplished in two weeks.

-Regards to language aspects, the SPECIFIC GOALS FOR THE 8 LEVELS are:

LEVEL 1 (BEGINNER, 40 classes) and LEVEL 2 (ELEMENTARY, 40 classes): These levels are for beginners without previous knowledge of the Spanish language, students with basic knowledge of the language or for who had studied Spanish several years ago. It is aimed to give the students basic communication skills in everyday situations. Students will be able to use the Present Simple. Students must be able to: - Give personal information (name, age, nationality, profession, customs, etc.). - Understand and editing simple texts. - Ask for information, favors and permissions. - Describe persons, objects and simple situations. - Understand simple texts and oral communications. - Invite, accept or to refuse invitations. - Give and to understand simple instructions. - Interact in a situation of buying and selling. - Communicate likes and dislikes.

LEVEL 3 (INTERMEDIATE 1, 40 classes): At the end of this level, students must be able to: - Understand different kinds of conversations at normal oral speed. - Report past facts. - Have enough language skills to communicate in everyday colloquial situations. - Understand simple oral and written texts on the history of Patagonia and Argentina. - Express opinions, enunciate complaints. - Express feelings and needs, make conjectures.

LEVEL 4 (INTERMEDIATE 2, 40 classes): students must be able use the Present of the Subjunctive Way and the first Conditional (with the times and mannersof the previous levels). Once this level is completed, the student will be able to: - Speak on the telephone of taking in consideration the Argentine conventions in formal and informal situations. - Interact in discussions expressing opinions and using strategies of persuasion, and express wishes and feelings using complex phrases. - Understand newspapers or magazine articles, written journalism and television or radial newscasters, as well as editing texts of an intermediate level. - Express recommendations and requests in a complex way.

LEVEL 5 (INTERMEDIATE 3, 40 classes) and LEVEL 6 (INTERMEDIATE 4, 40 classes): students must be able to produce using forms of the past of the Subjunctive Mood and the Conditional Compound (with the times and manners of the previous levels). - Formulate hypothesis and conjectures in relation with present, past and future facts. - Express recommendations and requests in a complex way. - Understand literary texts of Argentine authors with the help of the teacher. - Understand oral and written texts on Argentine history, with the assistance of the teachers.

LEVEL 7 (ADVANCED level, 40 classes): For students without mistakes on the use of the manners and verbal times. Students must manage with ease -both understanding and producing more complex written texts and oral speech- and be able to give detailed information about general subjects as well as understand any kind of literary texts. The student must be able to produce oral and writing texts adapted to the communicative situation. Once this level is completed, the student will be able to: - Produce coherent and correctly written texts on topics of his interest, making a correct use of punctuation. - Use formal structures in oral and written texts. - Carry out a formal oral explanation on a topic of his interest for an extended period of time. - Carry out an argument in oral and written forms. - Understand and to critically perceive the messages of the mass media. - Read complex texts. - Make notes while listening to a native speaker who is present or whose voice is recorded. - Understand informal, regional uses of Argentine Spanish (regional expressions and slang). At the advanced level students have the possibility to study the Spanish language related to their special interests, professional fields or special needs: Economics, Spanish and Latin American Literature, Biology, History.

LEVEL 8 (SUPERIOR level, 40 classes): Students must be able to master the Spanish language with perfection. They have to speak and write with the most fluency of the language. This level is for students interested in completing their studies of the Spanish language and reaching a high level of knowledge on Argentine history and literature. In the same way like advanced level, students have the possibility to study the language related to their special interests or professional fields: Economics, Spanish and Latin American Literature, Biology, History.