Portugal will train as Portuguese teachers in Baixada in Caracas, announced today in Baixa in Caracas.

“This initiative aims to ensure, in the near future, the training of new students of this language that already has 7,500 students in different parts of Venezuela”, says the embassy in a statement.

The delivery of the study is a joint initiative of Portugal in Caracas, Camões — Institute of Cooperation and Language, in Venezuela (CEPE Venezuela) and is intended for Venezuelans who between the coordination of teaching grants and their language skills for the teaching.

“Participants in the program will develop their language skills in prestigious Portuguese universities and then go to educational centers that wish to receive a language in their study program. You can communicate in a language that unites peoples on four continents”, he explains.

The seven fellows will attend intensive Portuguese courses at “prestigious Portuguese universities, such as the University of Lisbon, Nova de Lisboa, Porto, Aveiro, Coimbra and Minho” that “have excellent quality virtual platforms”, as well as professors who “will be During a month to help” the students available from Venezuela and other parts of the world, in “improvement of the language at a distance”.

“Admitted students were considered an economic contribution that represented the effort they put in.

According to the ambassador, “the promotion of Portuguese culture and language in Venezuela is one of the main diplomatic missions” and it is essential “that the number of Venezuelans continue to grow” who speak Portuguese.

The language “also has great economic value, which also opens doors to great economic value, and which also opens doors to intensify the historical ties and values ​​that identify the local Portuguese community”.

According to the coordinator of education Sousa, “Venezuela has 588 studies of interest in the available scholarships, a growing proof of the venela, “aware of the advantages, of being able to communicate a language of global projection”.

In Venezuela, there are 50 official schools, about 7,00 students of Portuguese who are integrated in Portuguese Venezuelan schools, schools and centers and six universities that use the domain and the language of involvement.

As they point out, the number of Portuguese students will increase in the coming years and teacher training takes place at the Universidade Pedagógica Experimental Libertador (UPEL) in the city of Maracay and at the Universidad Central de Venezuela.

According to professor Enrique Sá, from the Portuguese Language Center (CLP) news from UPEL, great news about grants from Venezuela “is great news” and a recognition of the quality of the work developed in Venezuela.

In Venezuela there are 100 teachers of Portuguese, at the national level and in the UPEL of Maracay 50 students are being trained as future teachers of the language. There are still 60 people enrolled in the distance course “Diplomado in Teaching Portuguese as a Foreign Language”, at the University of Carabobo.

The Venezuelan school Portuguese, with basic and secondary education and a greater part of the demand of the teaching materials system, such as manuals, dictionaries and libraries, are frequently donated by Camões IP, CEPE and the Embassy of Portugal.