2023-04-28 09:32:32
«When the entire digital transformation process is underway, the dynamics of artificial intelligence and the so-called machine language, the study of languages has become a priority, a priority with international, political, social, economic and cultural”, expressed the author of the foreign garden.
García Montero explained that, for this reason, having an Observatory at Harvard “gives a value of security and at the same time prestige to all the concerns that the Instituto Cervantes has” and in this sense they are “very proud of the work they have been able to perform here the two directors in their ten years of operation.
The also essayist and literary critic acknowledged that new technologies have affected the use he makes of language in the private sphere, such as when he communicates by text message with his children using many abbreviations, but when he goes to teach, he gives a lecture or talk to other people say also and not tb.
“In the life of languages, this awareness of the context helps to maintain the maternal, which unites us as an identity in a language and to maintain the community, which makes 600 million people who speak Spanish understand each other,” he stressed.
The director of the Instituto Cervantes highlighted the merit of the Spanish Observatory for having completed ten years at Harvard, “a highly prestigious intellectual point of reference”, where studies are carried out that influence “international relations, but not only from the point of view of culturally, but also economically, technologically and scientifically.
The executive director of the Spanish Observatory of the Cervantes Institute at Harvard, Marta Mateo, explained to EFE that the Observatory is dedicated “to studying the presence and evolution of Spanish in all social sectors, the presence of (Spanish-speaking) cultures in diversity that characterizes us and in all areas: in the demographic sector, in the media, in politics”.
The Observatory carries out studies on Spanish to “give visibility, prestige, objectively analyze the contribution of Spanish and Hispanic cultures to this country (USA)”, and also publishes them in English because “bilingualism is a basic principle,” Mateo said.
As part of the celebration of the tenth anniversary of the Observatory of Spanish at Harvard of the Instituto Cervantes, García Montero gave the conference at Harvard poetry in today’s worldwhich was followed by the talk Sometimes still throughby the Mexican writer and teacher Valeria Luiselli.
García Montero presented the Cervantes Medal to the director of the Observatory, Diana Sorensen.
The executive director of the institution, Mateo, recalled that since its creation, the Observatory has organized more than 300 activities in collaboration with dozens of universities and institutions, and has completed a total of 85 studies that analyze in depth the Hispanic reality in the US. USA
According to data from the Observatory, the United States is the first non-Spanish speaking country with the largest Spanish-speaking population, with 60 million people who speak Spanish, 32 million of them as their first language.
The Observatory estimates that by 2060 the United States will be the second Spanish-speaking country in the world after Mexico, and that 27.5% of the US population will be of Hispanic origin.
For the Observatory’s linguists, Spanish is “indisputably” the most studied language at all educational levels in the United States, with 7 million students.
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