Abstract: (The reflexive-collaborative exploration of space: getting familiar with architectural and urban design vocabulary) Teaching Romanian as a foreign language to foreign citizens in a one-year academic programme especially tailored for foreigners who wish to study in Romania is always challenging and fully linked to the student-centered education principle. Thus, for teachers working with students from The Romanian Language Preparatory Year it is crucially to find functional, useful methods in order to enable the students’ critical thinking, develop knowledge, activate and contextualize vocabulary items of general use and introduce specific terms. Building learning and producing language are targets which need to be set. As a result, our paper is meant to expose some suggestions of how to explore space and learn Romanian through the means of the reflective-collaborative learning frame.