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In addition to our standard minimum language delivery requirements, the following are the minimum content-management requirements to be granted each specific belt:

• Beginner Spanish Belt Levels
• Intermediate Spanish Belt Levels
• Advanced Spanish Belt Levels

Beginner Spanish Belt Levels

White Belts (Beginner Spanish I) - Yellow Belts (Beginner Spanish II) - Orange Belts (Beginner Spanish III)

White Belts (Beginner Spanish I):

Average White Belt students are expected to not have any prior knowledge of Spanish.

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Yellow Belts (Beginner Spanish II):

Average Yellow Belt students are expected to know how to:

• Greet people and say goodbye
• Request and provide personal information and take part in introductions
• Describe people by their physical appearance
• Interact in bars, shops, markets and restaurants
• Locate things and give directions on how to get to places
• Describe places: houses, neighborhoods and cities
• Request and give the time and talk about timetables
• Describe objects
• Describe products or meals
• Talk about habits and their frequency
• Talk about domestic chores

In addition to being able to handle content for these conversations, average Yellow Belt students are expected to communicate their thoughts according to the delivery standards provided here.

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• Get around on public transportation
• Talk about emotional states
• Make comparisons
• Make suggestions
• Express cause
• Express agreement and disagreement
• Suggest activities, make invitations and react to events
• Arrange appointments
• Offer and request help
• Talk about current hobbies, studies and jobs
• Give examples
• Talk about likes, dislikes and preferences

In addition to being able to handle content for these conversations, average Orange Belt students are expected to communicate their thoughts according to the delivery standards provided here.

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Intermediate Spanish Belt Levels

Green Belts (Intermediate Spanish I) - Light Blue Belts (Intermediate Spanish II) - Navy Blue Belts (Intermediate Spanish III)

• Describe people by their personality
• Talk about the past
  • Talk/write about actions in the past with a known start and end date
  • Talk/write about habitual actions in the past
  • Describe people and places in the past
• Ask for and give information on where objects or places can be found
• Express different degrees of preference
• Express qualities in the superlative
• Talk about clothes and fashion and interact in a clothes shop
• Express necessity
• Talk about third persons, comment on similarities and make comparisons

In addition to being able to handle content for these conversations, average Green Belt students are expected to communicate their thoughts according to the delivery standards provided here.

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Light Blue Belts (Intermediate Spanish II):

Average Light Blue Belt students are expected to know all prior skills in addition to knowing how to:

• Talk about plans and projects
• Express conditional situations
• Talk about weather conditions and forecasting
• Express obligation, necessity, prohibition, possibility, and purpose
• Request, give and refuse permission
• Make recommendations and give advice and instructions
• Request and give opinions on people, things and events
• summarize and express personal opinion on news
• Express agreement and disagreement
• Talk about books, science, and the new technologies
• Talk about national and international issues

In addition to being able to handle content for these conversations, average Light Blue Belt students are expected to communicate their thoughts according to the delivery standards provided here.

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• Manage spoken communication: ask if someone knows something, encourage someone to continue, and react to information.
• Relate actions from the past and present: compare and contrast them.
• Talk about past actions that took place prior to another past action
• Match up information by expressing cause and effect
• Hypothesize about the present
• Express degrees of necessity in an impersonal manner
• Ask for favors, offer to do favors for others and accept or reject people’s offer of help
• Ask for and give advice or help to solve a problem
• Talk about personal relationships and feelings
• Express sorrow about things
• Talk about music: express tastes, describe and criticize songs and singers, and comment on musical abilities.
• Talk about people in professional terms: their achievements, career, and qualities.

In addition to being able to handle content for these conversations, average Navy Blue Belt students are expected to communicate their thoughts according to the delivery standards provided here.

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Advanced Spanish Belt Levels

Purple Belts (Advanced Spanish I) - Brown Belts (Advanced Spanish II) - Black Belts (Advanced Spanish III)

• Give advice and recommendations, personally and impersonally.
• Offer, accept and reject things
• Set out formal letters and electronic mail
• Express doubts, share them and make decisions
• Express the intention of doing something or not
• Suggest activities and make plans
• Reformulate what has been said and add information
• Ask, speak, anticipate and warn about future situations
• Praise people and react to praise
• Ask public establishment employees for services or things
• Talk about towns or cities: characteristics, resources, traditions, legends, and socioeconomic changes

In addition to being able to handle content for these conversations, average Purple Belt students are expected to communicate their thoughts according to the delivery standards provided here.

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• Talk about culture, fashion and publicity
• Interact in the working and business world
• Express feelings: sorrow, joy, disappointment, annoyance, fear, and worry.
• Put short, informative articles into order
• Make judgments and evaluations and express, justify and argue opinions
• Express probability and different degrees of sureness
• Cheer people up
• Announce and predict future events
• Give instructions on how to do certain jobs
• Show that you are following another person’s conversation
• Talk about food, recipes, culinary experiences and tastes: describe dishes in detail, ask for information on unfamiliar dishes, and define the characteristics and components of foods and their therapeutically properties and uses.
• Make, and invite others to make, assumptions on events in the present and from the past, using varying degrees of probability.
• Clarify the meaning or intention of the words of others

In addition to being able to handle content for these conversations, average Brown Belt students are expected to communicate their thoughts according to the delivery standards provided here.

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• Take part in social events of quite a formal nature: lunches, dinners, and parties.
• Talk about the environment, green tourism and the country
• Talk about personal relationships and changes in people
• Use counter-argument techniques
• Welcome someone, give compliments and gifts and react to receiving them.
• Express advantages and disadvantages
• Express agreement, disagreement and doubt about others’ opinions
• Talk about history and the sociopolitical situations of countries
• Talk about personal, academic and professional plans

In addition to being able to handle content for these conversations, average Black Belt students are expected to communicate their thoughts according to the delivery standards provided here.

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• React to people’s accounts of things and unknown information
  Relate historical events and occurrences
• Express probable and improbable conditions for carrying out deeds in the future
• Talk about unreal occurrences or hypothetical situations in the present and future
• Describe the countryside and express the impressions they produce
• Express ignorance of things with specific characteristics and deny/confirm their existence
• Seek and make evaluations and judgments of things and justify them
• Make reference to pre-supposed conversation topics
• Make digressions/interruptions and change the subject in conversation
• Express doubts and reservations on the opinions of others
• React positively, negatively and in a reserved manner to other people’s assumptions and argue for or against them
• Comment on and judge people’s behaviors or attitudes
• Express conditions and formulate hypotheses about the past and present
• Protest, demand or complain about things: repeat complaints, justify them
• Make up groups: define their characteristics, interests and discussion topics, talk about prohibitions, requirements and conditions
• Make proposals and suggestions
• Express obstacles and more probable or less probable conditions in achieving things

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