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spanish online courses (AVE)

Spanish anywhere, anytime

Learn Spanish online with AVE Global (Aula Virtual de Español). AVE Global is an interactive online course specifically designed by the Instituto Cervantes for distance learning. To use this tool, you'll need a computer with an internet connection.

The Instituto Cervantes’ AVE is an Internet-based educational infrastructure set up to provide Spanish courses.

The AVE materials and courses can be used as supplementary content for your Spanish classes; as your main text book for independent study; or as part of blended learning courses where students take a combination of online and face to face classes.

With AVE courses, students:

Learn to express themselves properly in Spanish in a variety of situations.
Study all aspects of the Spanish language: grammar, vocabulary, phonetics, spelling...
Discover the broad, sociocultural reality of the Spanish-speaking world in all its richness and diversity.

AVE is organized into the same levels as the language courses:

Beginner (A1, A2)
Intermediate (B1)
Advanced (B2)
Proficiency (C1)

Each course takes approximately 30 hours of work to complete.

If you have some knowledge of Spanish, we kindly ask you to take a placement test. You can take the placement test online.

Each lesson has three automatic tests that assess performance on the material already covered, as well as four exercises corrected by tutors.

Each lesson includes at least three online exercises to be completed with fellow classmates, as well as a final task for each unit in which students put the course content into practice.

One of the main aims of the AVE courses is to educate students about the culture of Spanish-speaking countries. By incorporating materials from different sociocultural sources, such as the press, literature, cinema, music and others, the courses provide a realistic reflection of Hispanic culture and society in all their rich variety.

The AVE uses Internet resources for educational ends, to put fast, innovative and easily accessible courses at students´ fingertips. Students are also free to choose the time, pace and place of study.

The availability of text, sound and images in multimedia products provides students with examples of language in real contexts. Students can also practice course content on their own, in attractively presented, interactive exercises.
The following resources are available to students:

Interactive, multimedia course materials: video, audio, games...
Communication tools: E-mail for sending text, sounds and images, chat, forums, audio conferencing...
An automatic assessment system that collects data on completed exercises which students have access to whenever required
Technical support when needed.

Students who successfully finish any of the AVE courses will receive a certificate stating they have done so.

Those interested in obtaining an official qualification in Spanish can apply for the examination for the DELE. These examinations take place every year in more than a hundred cities worldwide.