The Centro Universitario de Idiomas-CUI– provides professional training and teaching programs involving foreign language learning for adults. Its an institution born, developed and formed within the University of Buenos Aires. As a result, its approach to education, academic production, training and transmission of knowledge has an unmistakable university character, with the academic rigor and excellence this implies.
The Spanish Language Program for Foreign Students at CUI combines the outstanding academic level of the UBA with the modern approaches and technology used in language teaching by a team of instructors with wide experience.
Our program was created in 1998 to satisfy the growing demand from students and travelers from around the world coming to Buenos Aires to learn the language and the culture of the country. Since then the program has continued to grow and improve in accordance with international standards.
The CUI is well known for the quality of its programs and of its teaching staff. Teacher training is constant during the year, whether in seminars inside the Center or outside.
Immersion is a key factor in the learning of Spanish in Buenos Aires in general, and at CUI in particular. Contact with the language and the culture of the city and the country enhances the learning process and favors a quicker acquisition of the needed skills to interact with Argentine peers, engage in cultural activities, etc. The warmth and welcoming attitude of ‘porteños’ (the inhabitants of Buenos Aires), always ready to help tourists and foreign students, is a bonus in this process..
CUI presents its brand new Study Abroad Program, a combined syllabus encompassing a variety of fields of study and area contents to suit the demand of international students worldwide. Each individual program allows students to take courses either in English or Spanish, and to enroll for a full semester, a trimester, the year, January term, or the summer period. Since adaptability is another of CUI’S features, tailor made courses are also available.
This placement exam is designed to give students and teachers a preliminary assessment of the approximate level of a student's knowledge of Spanish grammar and usage, before enrolling in our Spanish Program. It consists of 6 levels and includes reading and listening activities; you will only advance to the following level if you have completed the previous one satisfactorily. It should take around 50 minutes to answer the whole exam. At the end of the test, you will see your level and be given a percentage.
Buenos Aires is the most elegant and attractive of all South American cities, one that clearly reveals the varied and heterogeneous essence of Argentinehood. Like all cosmopolitan cities it combines tradition and modernism. A noticeable European influence in its architecture and the dressing style of its people, multiculturalism depicted in every corner of the city, a daily and nightly feverish rhythm, and the well-known “porteña” hospitality are some of its main features. It is not by chance that Buenos Aires is considered “the Paris of Latin America”.
Immersion is a key factor in the learning of Spanish in Buenos Aires in general, and at CUI in particular. Contact with the language and the culture of the city and the country enhances the learning process and favors a quicker acquisition of the needed skills to interact with Argentine peers, engage in cultural activities, etc. The warmthand welcoming attitude of ‘porteños’ (the inhabitants of Buenos Aires), always ready to help tourists and foreign students, is a bonus in this process.
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