Centro de Lenguas Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Bogotá

The Centro de Lenguas at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana offers Spanish as a foreign language on the Bogotá campus. The university and Instituto Cervantes identify the language centre with the Jorge Hoyos Vásquez building on Carrera 7. That building name is a more helpful reference for a first visit than the main university address, which covers a much larger campus.

Personalised Spanish in a university setting

The Spanish programme is designed for international learners and offers individualised teaching with flexible starting dates and times. Its practical approach uses projects and situations drawn from daily life. A learner who needs to follow meetings in Colombia could therefore bring different objectives to the course from an exchange student who wants to participate more confidently in conversations on campus.

Access to the university environment gives students opportunities to encounter Spanish beyond the planned lessons. The course’s individual format also makes it useful to identify priorities before the first meeting. Someone who reads academic Spanish but finds fast speech difficult may want listening and interaction to receive most attention. A student with good conversational skills may instead want to organise and present a longer piece of work. Visiting students seeking academic credit should establish the arrangements with their own institution.