Brazil and New Zealand nearer to learning Spanish in Spain
Written by Kellie on August 7th, 2009This week there have been two important events in the area of Spanish teaching! The University of Salamanca has signed an agreement to teach more Spanish in New Zealand, and Brasil and the Instituto Cervantes, in Spain, have made an agreement too to improve the status of Spanish learning and teaching in Brasil.
Acquiring and improving their Spanish methodology
The University of Salamanca has signed an agreement with the University of Auckland, New Zealand, to improve their Spanish department. The agreement will support the learning of Spanish in the University and, more impressively, in the future they’re going to build a Ibero-American centre as the centre for the learning and teaching of Spanish. This Institute is going ot be closely linked with our own University of Salamanca.
The University in New Zealand is going to hold a celebration in February of 2010 with conferences principally about the history of Spain as of the Second Republic.
It’s suggested that of the population of New Zealand 20,000 people already speak Spanish! The country is hoping that this new agreement with Salamanca is going to help improve the learning of Spanish there and so with time will help relations between them and South America. Spain and New Zealand were already in contact with their popular Spanish Courses for foreigners that are available, and have been for some time, in NZ.
The University of Auckland was particularly interested in Salamanca because of it’s fantastic University and it’s historical archives, and because they have a long standing relation with the university. Twice in recent years have groups from the International Courses department of Salamanca have been to NZ to give classes on how to give Spanish Classes!
The Ministry of Education in Brasil and the Instituto Cervantes have also signed an agreement to give more importance to the learning and teaching of Spanish in Brasil and to publicise the language amongst school children.
As of 2010 it’s going to be obligatory to learn a foreign language in Brasil at school, and for that there’ll be 26 thousand Spanish teachers needed to give classes! This is going to be a big event for Brasil, especially considering that there are certain problems in the training of teachers. They’re positive and excited though, and the introduction of internet access in all schools is going to make it easier to teach Spanish language and also Spanish culture.
They’ve recognised Spanish as a very important language for them, seeing as they are so so close geographically to Spanish speaking countries!
Come to Spain with a Scholarship
The UNILA, Federal University for LatinAmerican Integration, will offer Spanish courses including: Spanish literature, history, geography, and also about their infrastructure and business. The University is a bilingual centre and will start working at the end of August, with courses for post grads and undergraduates.
We recently had a group of Brasilian students come to Salamanca to learn Spanish with us. You can find out more about what they got up to on our Spanish language blog.
If you want to learn Spanish but not go so far we can offer you a course to learn Spanish in Spain! We have courses for all levels of Spanish and schools in Salamanca, Granada and Seville. The learning of Spanish is becoming more and more important and courses are more available and fun than before! Our Cultural course included in our Spanish Language course helps you learn about the Spanish speaking countries and how the Spanish live, their history, art etc! There are different courses and a course for everyone, beginners, advanced and even teachers! For groups too, like the Brasilian group we had study with us, you can come and study in any of our schools on a special group program.
If you’re a teacher and want to either freshen up your knowledge or get some help with new teaching methods, revision of important structures etc we have courses for you too. We even have scholarships for non-native Spanish teachers in Salamanca! You can find out more information about this and apply for the scholarships for teachers via the internet. Our teaching courses are great for teachers with and without experience and we go through a range of different topics to brush up on your Spanish!
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