Mallorca: six regions push language help for newcomers

Mallorca’s capital, Palma: six regional governments meet on Wednesday, 11 November, to discuss how newcomers can learn the language and culture of their new home. The Balearic government meets representatives from Catalonia, the Valencian Community, the Basque Country, Navarre and Galicia. The Balearic Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport says they want to strengthen support for people getting started.

The regions are sharing ways to certify early language skills, particularly at A1 level in official languages other than Spanish. They have also presented teaching material about Spain’s languages for secondary school pupils. The material was developed jointly and is due to be published soon for schools to use.

The talks also cover how to get more of those languages onto video platforms and public media. The governments have reviewed contacts with Spain’s public broadcaster RTVE about meeting audiovisual rules and offering more content in the languages, especially for children. They will keep working on ways to measure whether their efforts work and share approaches that other regions could use.

Topics: Migration · Education · Palma

Source: Europa Press / Mallorca.com