The 16th Spanish Language Week organized from Monday 14th November until Friday 19th November by the Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in the Commonwealth of Dominica culminated successfully with the awards ceremony on Friday afternoon.
This annual event, coordinated with the Venezuelan Institute for Culture and Cooperation, welcomed the following Secondary Schools for the spelling and linguistic competition in Spanish: Dominica Community High School; Dominica Grammar School; Convent High School; Isaiah Thomas Secondary School; Castle Bruce Secondary School; North East Comprehensive School and Orion Academy.
The Spelling competition was won by Louise Aarons of Convent High School and in the Linguistic competition the third place went to Dominica Community High School; second place to Dominica Grammar School and first place to Convent High School.
Ambassador of Venezuela, Hayden Pirela Sanchez gave thanks to all Secondary Schools participants and congratulate Principals and Spanish teachers for being enthusiastic in teaching Spanish at their schools as a second language.
The General Manager of PDV Caribe Dominica Ltd, Henry Blanco, who sponsored the Spanish Week celebration, joined the diplomatic staff of the Embassy, the students, parents and friends of Venezuela in the culmination of this successful event.
You did well, keep up the good work!
Congrats Louise Aarons !
Congrats Louise Aarons !
Louise Aarons, keep those top positions girl. Well done again.
Keep it up.
Good more is better French, Spanish German. And even skiroo speech too
Go ahead and keep deleting peoples comment. My question was why is Spanish being referred to as a Second Language. Our Language is more of a French Dialect.
It is good to learn other Languages, but I thought “French” was closer to our roots. Why is “Spanish” being thought as a “Second” Language? as per the article.
I think the students in Dominica should be given a wider option of foreign languages to learn. The students should learn Spanish because Dominica and Spanish speaking economies interact. But the Spanish speaking economies are not doing so well as other economies in the world. The schools officials should study what countries around the world have for a certain length of time have had strong progress stable economies, and offer the students in Dominica the option to learn those languages so future Dominica’s diplomats can be more effective in carrying out Dominica’s mission, just like other foreign countries learn English to reach out to us. Another option for the educators is to offer the students to learn the six official languages of the United Nations.
Go Louise! Solid Spanish foundation at Pioneer Preparatory School! Continue to make us proud!