Felipe VI considers something “striking” the decision to withdraw the Spanish As an element of communication of the White House and believes that it will surely be temporary, since by the force of “democopic and democratic facts” it will end up being the second language of more use and political influence in the United States.
This has been indicated by the King this Wednesday during the annual meeting of the Patronage of the Cervantes Institute, where he recalled the role of Spanish in the United States, where in 2050 there will be almost 100 million Spanish speakers.
An affirmation with which he referred to the decision of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, to close the website and the official social networks of the White House in SpainL shortly after taking office, as he did when he came to power for the first time in 2017.
The Kings have presided over the annual meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Cervantes Institute, the highest governing body of the institution, in the Royal Palace of El Pardo. The king has highlighted how the Spanish, which unites more than 600 million people around the world, “is in so alive America, is so vibrant, that it can be said without fear of exaggerating that of America will depend, to a large extent, its future evolution. “
And the US case has highlighted, where the Cervantes Institute has 5 centers and where the Spanish exceeds “more” to the other languages in secondary and university education.
Not only in America, but throughout the world, the number of Spanish students grow, in a sustained way, in 2 % per year, with 24 million at all levels of teachingexplained the monarch.
He has also influenced the presence and potential of the teaching of Spanish in Africa, so that, in addition to the center of the Cervantes Institute in Dakar, It is projected to be implemented in Ivory Coast and in Mauritaniato which the training of Spanish teachers in African countries must accompany, according to the growing demand.
In addition to the teaching of Spanish and the dissemination of culture in Spanish, the king has highlighted the work of the Library Network of the Cervantes Institute, The largest in the Hispanic world with 63 libraries, which treasures almost one and a half million documents and only last year he carried out almost 260,000 loan operations.
In the act held at the Pardo Palace, the Kings have delivered the Ñ 2024 Prize of the Cervantes Institute to the Korean Hispanic Park Chul (1949), Professor Emeritus of Hispanic Literature at the Hankuk University of South Korea, one of the greatest experts in experts in Cervantine matters in that country and first translator of El Quijote to the Korean, to which they have expressed their gratitude “For a lifetime and an academic career consecrated to Spanish.”
Felipe VI has also welcomed the employers of the Cervantes Institute, including the president of the EFE Agency, Miguel Ángel Oliver, in the act he has counted Also with the presence of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares and Culture, Ernest Urtasun.
In addition, they are invited to this act of El Pardo, the Cervantes 2023 award, Luis Mateo Díez; the Nicaraguan writer and Cervantes Award 2017, Sergio Ramírez; the writer Elvira Lindo; the director of the RAE, Santiago Muñoz Machado and the Mexican writer and editor Gonzalo Celorio, among others.
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