Weekend event features music, food, movies and language
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/03/17
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – While most of the world is celebrating Saint Patrick’s Day
Taipei marks its first Spanish Language Day. (By Central News Agency)
Saturday, Taipei City played host to Taiwan’s first-ever Spanish Language Day.
Most of the country’s remaining 20 official diplomatic allies are Spanish-speaking countries in Central and South America and in the Caribbean.
The weekend event in the capital features movies and documentaries, music and dancing, traditional food and language classes. A second day of activities on Sunday will center on the Songshan Cultural and Creative Park, the Central News Agency reported.
The Spanish Language Day was the first event planned by a task force formed about six months ago to promote the study of the language in Taiwan, Spanish representative Jose Luis Echaniz Cobas said at the opening. The group was supported by the embassies of the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Paraguay, and by the representative offices of Spain, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Peru, and the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT), he said. [FULL STORY]
