Do More Business With The Language

I feel like the journalist that the more fierce Francoist censorship was devoted to mess with the U.S. President: - this is going to know who I am Truman, he said. Neither Harry Truman learned of the existence of my colleague nor its criticism are, of course, at all. Well, I happen to carry a lot of articles written in defense of the Spanish language and do not talk about it more or better in much of Spain. On the contrary, in Catalonia just prohibit by law the teaching of third hour per week of Castilian, Balearic officials now requires knowledge of Catalan and Senate multilingualism is a chaotic practice that requires the hiring of interpreters. Looking on the bright side, at least they do not have to go on strike.

Faced with so much nonsense, Salamanca could rise as the capital of the linguistic sense, ie as the capital of Castilian. Even globally, if you ask me, although Mexico has more Spanish speakers here, as there are already in the United States. According to the Tourism Observatory, approximately 23,700 foreign students came to our city to learn Spanish, which generated more than 28 million euros. Well what can I say, that still seems to me very little and that this figure should be at least five times higher. And I exaggerated Tilden, please and much less bizarre. What it is strange is that so important a matter is confined to the tourism sector and is not subject to further economic analysis. Given the decline of traditional manufacturing, the teaching of language should be the first industry Salamanca, next to the other three employment-generating activities, the university, health and prison. But fear not, we will comply with host occasional modest business conference this global dimensions and that, once again, to Truman and to whomever will bring the cool write what my late colleague and me.