INSTITUTO HISPANIA Competitors

Berlitz Corporation is a world-leading language and cultural training provider with over 145+ years of experience. Our immersive, communication-focused approach helps individuals, businesses, governments, and non-profit organizations develop the language skills, cross-cultural understanding, and confidence to succeed. At Berlitz, we believe in the power of language and cultural understanding to drive human progress. We work across 76 countries and teach over 50 languages, using the Berlitz Method, a proven, immersive technique that provides the confidence to speak your new language right away. Our courses are tailored according to your proficiency level and learning preferences, whether you study online or in-person, in groups, in private, or self-paced in your own time. Open up your world with Berlitz.

Driven by the purpose of creating mutual understanding through language, Babbel has been building digital language learning products for consumers and businesses since 2007. The Babbel app helps people connect and communicate across cultures, whether for travel, friendship, or career advancement. Based on a deep knowledge of how language learning is most effective, Babbel aims to make learners conversational as fast as possible. And it works: Studies from institutions like Michigan State University, Yale University and the City University of New York demonstrate the efficacy of Babbel's language learning methods. Millions of language learners agree. Babbel's secret sauce is the blend of true expertise, understanding of how humans learn, and the latest technology. With more than 60,000 lessons across 15 languages hand-crafted by experts, the learner experience constantly adapts through behaviour analysis to provide high quality interactive content that makes understanding a new language easy, from Spanish to Indonesian. Because Babbel is for everyone, its team reflects this diversity. From headquarters in Berlin and New York, Babbelonians from more than 80 nationalities represent the backgrounds and perspectives that make humans unique. With over 25 million subscriptions sold and an industry-leading retention rate, Babbel creates genuine connections with users worldwide.

The Instituto Cervantes is a public institution founded in 1991 by the Government of Spain, with the aim of promoting Spanish language teaching, and fostering knowledge of Spanish and Hispanic American culture. Currently, the Institute has 78 centers located in 44 countries. Its main headquarters are in Madrid and in Alcalá de Henares, the birthplace of Miguel de Cervantes. Given that Spanish is the 2nd most widely-used language for international communication in areas such as finance, culture and science, in addition to being a language that facilitates job opportunities, the Instituto Cervantes is the reference for quality in the promotion and dissemination of Spanish-speaking culture. Hence, our objectives and purposes are as follows: •To organize general and special Spanish courses, as well as courses in Spain’s co-official languages. •To organize the exams for the Diploma in Spanish as a Foreign Language (Diploma de Español como Lengua Extranjera: DELE), as well as to issue official certificates and diplomas on behalf of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports of Spain. •To be up-to-date in our teaching methods and in the training of professors. •To support the work done by Hispanists. •To participate in programs that aim to promote the Spanish language. •To carry out cultural promotion activities in collaboration with other Spanish and Hispanic American organizations, as well as with host country organizations. •To place libraries equipped with the latest technology, at the disposal of the public.