Spanish Language Course Planned for Seminarians

An educational course on Spanish language will be held for seminary students by the Language Teaching Center of Iranian Seminary Schools.

Considering the important responsibility of preachers to disseminate Islamic teachings at an international level, the course has been planned to meet the needs of seminarians who will be dispatched to the Spanish-speaking regions.

The specialized course will begin from the 10^th of Rabi’-ol-Awwal month, January 12, 2014, in the holy city of Qom.

The students can attend the classes three days a week from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. local time.

The participants will get acquainted with dissemination methods, religious sources, software products and educational sources during the course and elites will be identified and selected to be introduced to dissemination centers.

Those willing to attend the course can register by January 10 from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m. local time at Saduqi Seminary School in the holy city of Qom.

Spanish is a Romance language that originated in Castile, a region of Spain. Approximately 406 million people speak Spanish as a native language, making it second only to Mandarin in terms of its number of native speakers worldwide. It also has 60 million speakers as a second language, and 20 million students as a foreign language. Spanish is one of the six official languages of the United Nations, and is used as an official language by the European Union and Mercosur.

Spanish is the most popular second language learned by native speakers of American English. From the last decades of the 20th century, the study of Spanish as a foreign language has grown significantly, in part because of the growing populations and economies of many Spanish-speaking countries, and the growing international tourism in these countries.

Spanish is the most widely understood language in the Western Hemisphere, with significant populations of native Spanish speakers ranging from the tip of Patagonia to as far north as Chicago and New York City and since the early 21st century, it has arguably superseded French as the second-most-studied language and the second language in international communication, after English.

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