PCAL-BURGOS BURGOS A PACKAGE OF PROPOSALS MADE FOR BURGOS IS THE CAPITAL OF THE SPANISH LANGUAGE PCAL-BURGOS
The Provincial Association of PARTY Burgos Castilla y Leon (PCAL-Burgos) claims that the city of Burgos is the capital of the English language, proposing a package of actions designed for this purpose, among which is the creation of a Ministry of the English language of the Castile and Leon in the capital of Burgos, and the development of mechanisms to improve all aspects of economic activation related to teaching English language. With this measure, from the PCAL-Burgos contributes to economic development initiatives and creator of jobs linked to the delivery of unique development of the Community of Castilla y León such as the Cultural Heritage, the Natural Environment and the English Language. Burgos castilianist
For some of the aspects that highlight the cultural, social and economic de la Lengua Castellana are, among others.
§ More than 440 million people speak Castilian as their first language throughout the world. §
Castilian is the second most studied language worldwide, after English.
§ is an official language in 18 countries and co-official in three others.
§ In 2050, the United States a total of 132 million English speakers.
§ a of Castilian in Spain each year generated a turnover of 462 million euros and employs 5,500 people stable, increasing up to 9,500 during the summer months. §
Teaching Castilian is an industry that appeals to 240,000 foreigners a year to Spain and with enormous growth potential to the growing spread that Castilian experience worldwide, especially in the U.S. and Brazil. §
Cervantes Institute receives annually 60,000 students in its centers located throughout the world and estimates that 14 million people learn Castilian as a second language. § Studying Castilian
over 7 million in the U.S. and Canada, 3.5 million in Europe, 1 million in Brazil, half a million in Africa and 175,000 in Asia. In France, with 2.2 million students, Castilian has replaced German as the second most studied language.
§ The rise of Castilian is a business for the 627 schools, that move each year 176 million euros to offer their courses. Each student spends an average of 1,950 euros, which mostly go to pay tuition. In addition, students will spend 66 million annually on housing, handling 82 million, 68 million leisure and 69 million children in other chapters, the study Language tourism 2008 made by Turespaña, Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade .
§ The number of students traveling to Spain - attracted by the leisure and culture, grows gradually. Growth since 2002 has been 9% per annum. In 2000 came a total of 130,000 tourists idiomatic, who enrolled in the 518 private schools spread over five communities.
§ There are 56 schools in Spain and 53 official languages \u200b\u200bof Castilian universities with courses for foreigners.
Castilian § The business is estimated at 150,000 million euros, 15% of English GDP. The figure is handled by the Cervantes Institute to quantify the "value added" of Castilian as a language tourism, film, publishing, fashion and music. § The language quoted
upward and is attracting more people. As shown, a button, 823,000 Americans have studied university in 2006, up from 534,000 in 1990. The French, with 206,000 students, has lost 66,000 fans in the U.S.. UU. Brazil is another important focus of expansion, which will increase the inclusion of the Castilian language elective in high school. Unfortunately
Castilla y León, Salamanca except drive has failed its role in teaching the English language, which created and developed social, cultural and literary. Thus, most students are from European countries (174,600) and American (51,750), and the main market of the future is the United States although the high cost of travel to Spain for many prefer Mexico, Argentina and Costa Rica The three major competitors in Spain. The conditions necessary for students to travel to perfect language are their economic, socio-political situation in his country, the availability of transport connections, visas and currency exchange rates. 71% of students are women between 20 and 29 years, and preferably selected Andalusia, Salamanca, Madrid and Barcelona. Malaga, Seville, Granada and Cadiz represent the majority of students, 62,500 (26% of total) because Spain is associated with Andalusia. In the province of Malaga is Castilian 33,000 places to study in 50 centers, while Catalonia has with 6,600 seats in 93 schools.
Turespaña estimated that the number of students will increase in coming years and calculates the potential demand in ten years will reach 745,000 students, of which 240,000 will be in Europe, 486,000 Americans, 11,000 Asians and 8,000 Africans. Francisco Perez highlighted the sharp rise of Castilian in Germany, Sweden or Denmark, where firms bid to seize American markets. "The boom in the study of Castilian in the world will come when Latin America will become a market greedy for Europe and Asia," he says.
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But if you dream of one day coming, even from afar, the powerful English would be necessary for work or business. Only 2 percent of those studying in Europe and America Castilian they do for work. Not so in Asia, where the percentage rises to 10 percent, probably thinking of the American market. That Castilian attract mainly those outside the culture and entertainment reflects the light weight of the English economy in the past and the policies developed by the Instituto Cervantes, clearly opted to promote the culture and not as a business language, says Luis covered, the CA & A consultant, who drafted the blueprint of English for foreigners of Castile and Leon.
Among the reasons offered from the parts of Castile and Leon (PCAL-Burgos) to claim that Burgos is the capital of the English language are:
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Membership Valpuesta Burgos, whose cartulary of the year 804, are the oldest words written in English. §
Taranco In the town of Mena (Burgos) appeared for the first time written the word "Castilla" Origin of the name of our language, in the year 800.
§ The central role of Burgos Monasterio de Santo Domingo de Silos in ancient and recent history of the English language, which wrote the Silos Glosses, one of the first documents written in our language.
§ The prominent role of Burgos in Burgos in the history of English literature (Poem of the Cid, Poema de Fernán Gonzalez, Poem of Seven Infantes de Lara, La Celestina ,...). §
Burgos as a benchmark of several World Heritage Sites (Camino de Santiago, Burgos Cathedral, Atapuerca). §
host the Institute Burgos and Leon Castilian Language. §
Burgos host the University of Burgos. §
Burgos as the star of an enormous cultural heritage of Castilla y Leon, candidate city for European Capital of Culture 2016. §
Burgos central location in an area where the English language plays a key role: San Millán de la Cogolla, Comillas, Valladolid, Alcalá de Henares, Salamanca ,...). §
identified Burgos as the city with his tongue, with a particular social environment positioned for proper learning, teaching and pronunciation of the English Language.
Among the proposals that raise castilianist Burgos, to set the city of Burgos as Capital of the English language are:
§ Creation of the Ministry of the English Language in recognition of the importance of language in our Community and to coordinate all activities in this area, and its location in Burgos as first step of a claimed administrative decentralization of the institutions of the Castile and Leon as a path to social structure and territorial region.
§ Making reference Burgos city Castilian teaching foreigners, our city attracts approximately 20,000 students per year (8.3% of the total arriving in Spain) with an annual growth of 10% and a economic impact of 40 million euros annually in the city and a cultural and tourism impact difficult to assess. § Converting
Burgos in the landmark in the training of teachers of English, both through the existing language schools, University and Institute of Burgos and Leon Castilian Language, training 500 teachers annually. Recover §
role of Burgos in editing textbooks in Castilian, both for student learning in our country and foreign students, in both paper and electronic format. § Enhance
figure of cultural tourism "Tourism in Castilian" through routes of authors and literary works, historical sites linked to language, etc ...
From the parts of Castile and Leon (PCAL-Burgos) will develop an outreach campaign of this proposal that will articulate through the following actions:
§ Social explaining to groups, organizations and associations in the city, and especially through the professional language and literature, schools, and tourism-related operators and hotels. § Institutional
, demanding commitment Councils, Provincial Government, Junta de Castilla y León, political parties and trade unions and business groups. § Cultural
, seeking the complicity of the University of Burgos and the Castilian and Leonese Institute of Language. §
Citizen, seeking information and active participation of citizens in advocacy Burgos Burgos as the capital of the English Language.
§ Through New Technologies (Social Networking, Internet web page)
This proposal part of Castile and Leon (PCAL-Burgos) constitute a new and others a personal contribution to Bid for European Capital Burgos Culture 2016.
As the writer Ernesto Piedras in the International Language Congress held this year in Chile: "The languages \u200b\u200bare the expression of certain worldviews. Defender Castilian is to defend our memory, our present and our future, those of us who we are and who we can be. " The