'Salamanca: City of Spanish' promotes language-learning at Durham University
Monday, November 7, 2016 @ 9:53 PM
WHILE most of Spain is promoting itself as a top tourism destination at the World Travel Market (WTM) in London, representatives from the Castilla y León city of Salamanca have headed further north – to Durham University, in order to drum up more Spanish language students.
One of the three oldest colleges in the UK and second from top in the country for research, Durham University has been chosen as a cheaper and more effective alternative for Salamanca than the Language Show Live in London, which took place in May.
A stand titled, “Salamanca: City of Spanish,” opening tomorrow (Tuesday) and continuing on Wednesday, features two accredited Spanish-learning centres in the centre-northern metropolitan area which are offering scholarships for language students, Spanish teachers, and those involved in so-called 'train the trainer' courses.
Although the purest Spanish is said to be spoken in the city of Valladolid – also in Castilla y León – Salamanca is thought to be the centre of classical Spain and of language standardisation, being home to the country's oldest university.
In fact, Salamanca is often dubbed 'the Oxford of Spain', and the nation's main focus of language-learning.
Durham University is an ideal partner, to this end – it is 29th in the world in arts and humanities research and teaching, according to the QS World University Subject Rankings 2016-2017, and for the second year running, its Faculty of Hispanic Studies has been named the second-best in the UK, behind that of Cambridge University and ahead of Oxford, according to the Complete University Guide 2017.
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