Andalusia announces program promoting Spanish language 1 minute read
Madrid, May 5 (EFE).- Andalusia’s regional government Wednesday announced the launch of the ‘Spanish as a Foreign Language’ (ELE) program.
The initiative aimed to promote the Spanish language in Europe was developed by the Andalusian agency for foreign promotion, Extenda.
Developed to “encourage the activity of the (Spanish teaching) sector in Europe,” the plan is to put an emphasis on the markets in Italy through a “direct commission mission,” with two different rounds of workshops in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, as well as in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland,
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5 May 2021
Spanish Queen Letizia (C) poses with Spanish News Agency president Gabriela Canas (R) and Royal Academy of Spanish Language s director Santiago Munoz Machado (L) and others at her arrival to the headquarters of the Royal Academy of Spanish Language in Madrid, Spain, 27 April 2021, to attend a work meeting as Honour president of the Urgent Spanish Foundation. EPA-EFE/J.J. Guillen
Spanish Queen Letizia (C) poses with Spanish News Agency president Gabriela Canas (L) and Royal Academy of Spanish Language s director Santiago Munoz Machado (R) at her arrival at the headquarters of the Royal Academy of Spanish Language in Madrid, Spain, 27 April 2021, to attend a work meeting as Honour president of the Urgent Spanish Foundation. EPA-EFE/J.J. Guillen
It was the year of the pandemic and the year of great reading opportunities. The percentage of Spaniards over 14 years of age who frequently read books in their free time, that is, at least once a week, reached a historical maximum of 57% during the months of confinement (the average, taking the whole year , reached 52.7%). In 2019, that figure was 50%.
This is the data highlighted by the Ministry of Culture and Sports in the presentation this Friday of the Barometer of Reading Habits and Buying Books in Spain . “The increase is positive, but small,” the expert José Antonio Millán, coordinator of the three editions of the book Reading in Spain , tells EL PAÍS .