Venezuelan Embassy opens registration for advanced Spanish courses in T&T

The Em­bassy of the Bo­li­var­i­an Re­pub­lic of Venezuela in Trinidad and To­ba­go has an­nounced the open­ing of reg­is­tra­tion for ad­vanced-lev­el Span­ish lan­guage cours­es, as the Venezue­lan In­sti­tute for Cul­ture and Co­op­er­a­tion (IVCC) cel­e­brates 63 years of ser­vice in the coun­try.

In a me­dia re­lease, the Em­bassy said the new cours­es re­flect its con­tin­ued com­mit­ment to ed­u­ca­tion, cul­tur­al ex­change and the de­vel­op­ment of cit­i­zens through lan­guage learn­ing.

Es­tab­lished in 1963, the IVCC has played a long­stand­ing role in strength­en­ing ties be­tween Venezuela and Trinidad and To­ba­go through cul­tur­al and ed­u­ca­tion­al ini­tia­tives.

Over the decades, the in­sti­tute has helped train thou­sands of na­tion­als in Span­ish and con­tributed to sec­tors such as ed­u­ca­tion, trade and diplo­ma­cy.

Venezue­lan Am­bas­sador to Trinidad and To­ba­go, Ál­varo Sánchez Cordero, said the in­sti­tute has served as more than a lan­guage school.

“For 63 years, the Venezue­lan In­sti­tute for Cul­ture and Co­op­er­a­tion has been more than a lan­guage school; it has been a home for cul­tur­al di­a­logue and a part­ner in na­tion­al de­vel­op­ment,” he said.

He added that the an­niver­sary re­flects the Em­bassy’s on­go­ing role be­yond diplo­ma­cy.

“As we cel­e­brate this re­mark­able mile­stone, we reaf­firm that the Em­bassy of the Bo­li­var­i­an Re­pub­lic of Venezuela re­mains not on­ly a diplo­mat­ic mis­sion but al­so a vi­brant cul­tur­al in­sti­tu­tion, ful­ly en­gaged in the life and fu­ture of beau­ti­ful Trinidad and To­ba­go.”

Ac­cord­ing to the re­lease, the ad­vanced cours­es tar­get pro­fes­sion­als, uni­ver­si­ty stu­dents, ed­u­ca­tors and her­itage speak­ers seek­ing to im­prove flu­en­cy and deep­en their un­der­stand­ing of com­plex gram­mar and cul­tur­al ma­te­r­i­al.

The pro­gramme will in­clude ad­vanced con­ver­sa­tion and de­bate, tech­ni­cal and pro­fes­sion­al vo­cab­u­lary and read­ing com­pre­hen­sion us­ing au­then­tic texts such as jour­nal­ism, lit­er­a­ture and le­gal doc­u­ments.

It will al­so fo­cus on cross-cul­tur­al com­mu­ni­ca­tion.

Class­es will be de­liv­ered by na­tive-speak­ing in­struc­tors, with lim­it­ed spaces to al­low for per­son­alised in­struc­tion.

The Em­bassy and the IVCC have in­vit­ed in­ter­est­ed per­sons to reg­is­ter ear­ly, not­ing that the in­sti­tute con­tin­ues to pro­mote un­der­stand­ing and co­op­er­a­tion be­tween both na­tions through lan­guage and cul­ture.