Language integration

IN a groundbreaking move, the Instituto Cervantes and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees signed an agreement to help foreign refugees in Spain learn Spanish on Monday, March 6.

The Director of the iconic Spanish language institute, Instituto Cervantes, Luis García Montero, and the UNHCR representative in Spain, Sophie Muller, signed the agreement, the first partnership of its kind.

The agreement aims to develop programmes that help refugees and asylum seekers in Spain to learn the language, using teaching materials adapted to their linguistic needs.

The course uses a range of different online language learning materials to deliver a 30 hour course to the refugees.