Our level system

We offer a wide range of levels from absolute beginners to very advanced. You will normally need at least 40 hours tuition at any one level before advancing to the next course.

The table below gives an idea of how our levels compare to those established by the Council of Europe's Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEF, in Spanish the MRE) and by the Instituto Cervantes for its Diploma de Español como Lengua Extranjera (DELE) examinations.

The three DELE levels are equivalent to the Cambridge ESOL English language exams: PET, First Certificate and Proficiency.

On the first day that you begin a Spanish course with us, there is both a written and an oral placement test.

Note that on our part-time Spanish courses we have a slightly different structure of levels