If you find yourself wanting or needing to learn Spanish language and don’t know the level of your Spanish skills,
answer the 10 questions below, and you will get an idea of your approximate Spanish level.

Test
1. Have you studied Spanish for more than 2 years?
2. Have you spent more than 2 months living in a Spanish speaking country?
3. Can you communicate with native speakers on a basic level, get your point across and get the gist of what they’re saying?
4. Do you have an understanding of the regular and irregular verbs in the present tense, but feel unsure in the past and future tenses?
5. Do you understand the structure of the language, but just wish you could communicate better?
6. When you receive phone calls can you understand well enough to respond and make yourself understood?
7. Can you read and understand the story below? —> La Flaca ?
8. Do you think you could summarize it in Spanish verbally?
9. Do you speak to people at work in Spanish on a fairly regular basis?
10. If you found you were right in between the two levels, would you prefer to be the least prepared in the group and push yourself over taking it from the beginning in order to review and be sure that you had the basics?

Solution
- to half or less than half of these questions, you belong in a beginner class.
- to over half of these questions, you belong in an intermediate class
- to all of the questions you belong in the advanced class.

La Flaca
En la vida conocí mujer iqual a la Flaca coral negro de la Habana, tremendissima mulata. Cien libras de piel y hueso, cuarenta kilos de salsa,
en la cara dos soles que sin palabras hablan, que sin palabras hablan.

La Flaca duerme de dia, dice que asi el hambre engaña, cuando cae la noche baja a bailar a la Tasca. Y bailar y bailar, y tomar y tomar
una cerveza tras otra pero ella nunca engorda pero ella nunca engorda.

Por un beso de la Flaca daría lo que fuera por un beso de ellla, aunque solo una fuera.
Moje mis sabanas blancas, como dice la canción recordando la caricias que me brindó el primer dia.

Y enloquezco de ganas de dormir a su ladito. Porque Dios que esta flaca a mi me tiene loquito. O-oh, me tiene loquito.
Por un beso de la Flaca daría lo que fuera por un beso de ella, aunque solo una fuera.
( Jarobe Palo, La Flaca )