5 students will create online material to learn Spanish

Five Burgos students of the last two years of High School, will be responsible for creating specific content which students around the world will learn Castilian . They will make videos with conversations , prepare phonics flashcards on speaking and go to the net grammar documents necessary for learning Spanish as a foreign language at level A -1 ( understand and use familiar everyday expressions and frequent basic phrases aimed to needs of a concrete type ) .

To choose these students , the Castilian and Leonese Institute of Language and educational project for the World Talentia Marist yesterday signed a collaboration agreement. Talentia project working with children and young people of high ability , elect five students within the program GAREX ( Groups of High Performance and Excellence in Education ) .

"It's an innovative project in Spain . They will work materials that will be then used by schools, institutions and universities abroad to learn Castilian . We start with the standard A-1 , but the idea is that in years to come as the training at all levels . The contents will be grouped and uploaded to a website where they will be accessible to centers of Spain and abroad. Start with American and French centers , although the idea is open to all types of centers , "explains Roberto Ranz , Talentia director for the World.

This way of working is called Inverted classes as "other schools may have audiovisual material with which to learn online and also take them to the classroom to work specific areas in context ."

GAREX nine . Moreover multimedia project to learn Spanish that made ​​with the Institute of Language, Talentia for the World has launched eight other GAREXen projects . In total places offered fifty research also linked to the University of Burgos (with an educational robotics project ), the CENIEH ( with Guarenya Eye and 3D project ) , Hiperbaric (car of inertia ) , the Museum of the Book ( multimedia for iPad ) , MEH , Hubu and BELIEVE .

" We select students in the 3rd and 4th of Baccalaureate esoy to develop research projects that have to convey to an audience that will allow them to know their vocation and their future expectations of study and research ," he adds Ranz . Talentia for the World, pioneering program in Castilla y León, always works with real projects for real life .

The "worldwide best spanish" is looking for new customers

Colombia wants to position itself as an attractive destination for foreigners to learn the spanish language

In Colombia is speaking the best spanish in the world. Base don this belief, government built an ambitious strategy to make the country the best destination in the world for foreigners who want to learn the language. Conditions are created: Colombia has 22 of the 42 institutions that teach spanish in Latin America. Also, academic potential is huge: is estimated that by 2030 about 535 million people (85 million more tan today) speak spanish, ie 7,5 % of the world population.

But even though we have everything to be a spanish power we are not competitive yet. We Excel by far, Mexico, Argentina, Costa Rica, Ecuador and Guatemala, who were able to capitalize on this market, estimated at about 18 million students annually.

There are several factors that have less attractive, including the cost. To study spanish in Colombia is almost 30% more expensive tan others countries. A course of four to six months costs between 4 and 7 million pesos (3000 USD). Factors like visa procedures sometimes are tedious, making it difficult to access.

These weaknesses are being reviewed by the government´s strategy, which is already underway at consulates and international educational fairs. One of first steps was the creation of portal www.spanishincolombia.gov.co, now registers over 70,000 visits. On this spot, universities provide information about costs, duration and structure of their courses. In addition, prospective students find information about the culture and tourism in the different cites. Finally, texts, photos and videos about how to live in Colombia.

The initial goal of the plan is to go from 1,500 foreigners coming to the country to learn spanish each year from Germany, France and the UK, among others, to 3,000.