Almost 470 million people and 21 million speak it as a foreign language study. It is the third most used language on the Internet and the second in massive social networks like Facebook or Twitter … The Spanish figures in the world, the Cervantes Institute Yearbook, steady growth ratify domain by the English in 2015. But faced these encouraging numbers should not fall into illusions to cloud the growing concern quality of the language, according to the experts warn. Its use is gradually “scruffy” in the words of the leaders of Cervantes and the Royal Academy.
So yesterday said Victor Garcia de la Concha, director of the institute and member of the SAR. “I’ve said once and I repeat. The quality of Spanish is in a shabby state.” You have not diagnosed alone. Experts and scholars contemplate the impoverishment of language with great concern. They note several reasons: “It derives from a poor reading and poor education and poor language skills,” said Garcia de la Concha. He brings observing the prevailing wave of Spanish in the world for decades. While he was responsible for the SAR, he boosted global alliances for strategies on what he called the panhispanism. Were expansionary periods. During his time in front of the institute, in the last four years, they have scarce resources, but he wanted to make a virtue of necessity and encouraged his iberoamericanización.
Optimism figures
His experience led him to be optimistic in terms of numbers, but quite pessimistic as regards the qualitative decline of language. Neither directly attributed Garcia de la Concha to the digital age: “Experts warn that there is a clear relationship between the increasingly present signs and impoverishment, but that still lack perspective”
<. p> The solution, in his view, they are largely in the hands of political decisions. Also a necessary autonomy of Cervantes. “It would be desirable for this institution a more autonomous management model, as they have the Prado Museum and the National Library. Not so we would be subject to the vagaries of politics”, he argues.
I know experience. The position he now occupies has suffered a funnel effect in the context of a political war between the two ministries on which it depends -Cultura and Exteriors-, war was part of Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero at the head of the Executive and that has been repeated with the Government of Mariano Rajoy.
Both ministries have fought their battles for control of the hand-and the state policy in such a strategic issue as the Spaniard since Caesar Antonio Molina what would engulf the orbit of Culture. Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo, foreign minister, and Jose Maria Lassalle, Secretary of State for Culture, not lowered their weapons throughout the last legislature. There are many voices who argue that a law of autonomy of Cervantes solve, largely, the situation of stagnation. The current vacuum of power does not seem the best context for it.
also remain certainties encouraging figures. The authors of the report yesterday, David Fernandez Cheers, Complutense University, and José Montero Reguera of the University of Vigo, the exposed. The first brought the strength of new surveys in several countries and some important information. It specifies the directory that the group of potential users with native domain and more limited use has now reached 559 million worldwide. In 2030, 7.5% of the world population will speak Spanish. Currently it is 6.7%, well above those using Russian (2.2%) and a low 1.1% of German and French.
The promotion of new technologies and the digital era provides an acceptable health. Spanish is the third language of communication on the Internet and the second in Facebook and Twitter. And colonizing in the Anglo-Saxon environment, because both London and New York is the second language used by its inhabitants.
A 7.9% of users in the network is related in Spanish, responding ratio the spectacular growth of the past two decades, as it has expanded at the rate of 1,100% between 2000 and 2013.
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