About forty students of Catalan from worldwide universities participate in the Summer Language Study Stay in Barcelona
Barcelona, 8 July 2013. From 8 to 26 July, about forty students of Catalan from fifteen countries participate in the Summer Language Study Stay in Barcelona, organised by the Institute Ramon Llull and the University of Barcelona, through the Language Services. The initiative is targeted at students of Catalan from universities and other education institutions abroad who want to improve their knowledge of Catalan language and culture. The opening ceremony took place this morning. The event was chaired by M. Teresa Garcia Castanyer, commissioner for Multilingualism of the UB; Conxa Planas, director of the Language Services of the UB, and Andreu Bosch, director of the Department of Languages and Universities of the Institut Ramon Llull.
Barcelona, 8 July 2013. From 8 to 26 July, about forty students of Catalan from fifteen countries participate in the Summer Language Study Stay in Barcelona, organised by the Institute Ramon Llull and the University of Barcelona, through the Language Services. The initiative is targeted at students of Catalan from universities and other education institutions abroad who want to improve their knowledge of Catalan language and culture. The opening ceremony took place this morning. The event was chaired by M. Teresa Garcia Castanyer, commissioner for Multilingualism of the UB; Conxa Planas, director of the Language Services of the UB, and Andreu Bosch, director of the Department of Languages and Universities of the Institut Ramon Llull.
Students come from Germany, England, Argentina, Belgium, Scotland, Finland, France, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Czech Republic, Russia, Serbia and Ukraine. They will be divided into two groups according to their level: elementary or intermediate; they will attend 50 classroom hours with specialised teachers from the Language Services of the UB. Courses of Catalan language and culture take place in the Aulari of the Faculty of Philology of the UB. Leisure activities include, for example, a Catalan cooking workshop, a modernisme route and a visit to Antoni Tàpies Foundation. On Friday 26 July, activities will be closed on a ceremony chaired by Gemman Fonrodona, vice-rector for Students and Language Policy of the UB, and Vicenç Villatoro, director of the Institue Ramon Llull.
The language study stay is part of the programme for students of Catalan language and culture abroad of the Institute Ramon Llull, which also includes the 12th Catalan Language University Campus, a cooperative project organised together with the Government of Andorra.
For further information about the programme of the Summer Language Study Stay in Barcelona, please visit the blog of the Language Services.