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From tomorrow until Friday, September 29, applications can be submitted, both online and in person.

Rebeca Pérez: 'With this service we respond to the demand of young people and, at the same time, we follow the guidelines that the European Union marks in the matter of linguistic diversity, strongly encouraging its citizens to learn other languages, both for reasons of mobility professional and personal as being a factor of intercultural contacts and mutual understanding.

Improving the knowledge of English, French and German in conversation, to speak well, using cultural and recreational activities, is an objective made available to young Murcia by the Department of Youth and Development Cooperation, directed by Rebeca Pérez, through the Language Club, whose registration period opens tomorrow and continues until the 29th.

There are 22 clubs distributed throughout the municipality, in which there are 440 participants.

Of these, 16 Junior -12 in districts and 4 in districts-, aimed at young people between 12 and 17 years old, and 6 Seniors (4 in districts), for 17-30 years.

This is not a language course.

It is a complement to the academic formation that can receive or have received the assistants that allows, free of charge, to practice a foreign language.

The City of Murcia launched this service in 2010, and since then has been growing in number of centers where it is taught.

They are developed in cultural centers and youth centers of districts and districts.

In each group 20 young people participate, accompanied by a monitor that dynamizes it and is responsible for designing a monthly program with various leisure activities, leisure and free time.

'Este servicio nace como una respuesta a la demanda de los jóvenes y para seguir la directrices que marca la Unión Europea en materia de diversidad lingüística, animando decididamente a sus ciudadanos a aprender otras lenguas, tanto por razones de movilidad profesional y personal como por ser un factor de contactos interculturales y de comprensión mutua', explicó Rebeca Pérez.

La concejala de Juventud y Cooperación al Desarrollo ha estado acompañada en la presentación de esta nueva convocatoria por Diego Morales, secretario de la asociación de antiguos Erasmus de la UMU, ESN, y uno de los primeros usuarios que participaron en este servicio del Ayuntamiento, que ha explicado su experiencia personal como asistente.

Pérez adelantó su intención de continuar aumentando la oferta de clubes y plazas disponibles puesto que son muy bien recibidos tanto por los jóvenes que viajan en los intercambios, como por los centros de enseñanza y, además, 'somos muy conscientes de que el conocimiento de otros idiomas es un factor determinante para una movilidad real en la Unión Europea y permite oportunidades laborales reales, al mismo tiempo que dota a las empresas de ventajas para competir en el comercio internacional'.

La relación entre el Club de Idiomas y el programa de intercambios que la Concejalía organiza desde hace 19 años es evidente.

No obstante, en la última campaña el 40% de los jóvenes que participaron lo había hecho también en el club.

12 clubes en pedanías

12 clubs in districts

Young people registered in the municipality of Murcia who meet the age requirement of the group for which they apply can participate in the Language Club.

Entries can be submitted online, through the Internet, on the website: www.informajoven.org , or in person.

This case, in cultural centers and municipal offices where there will be language clubs: El Carmen, the Auditorium and Cultural Center of Beniaján, El Esparragal, La Alberca, Santa Cruz, Espinardo, Guadalupe, Torreagüera, Santiago and Zaraíche and Javalí Nuevo.

And also in the information centers in districts and in the General Register of the Town Hall.

The deadline, in any case, concludes next Friday, the 29th.

This new course will have 16 Junior Language Clubs in operation, each with several groups, in the municipal center «585m2 (2), young space», the municipal center «La Nave, espacio joven» (2), the municipal center (2), El Carmen (2), the Auditorium and Cultural Center of Beniaján (2), Cultural Center of Espinardo (1), Cultural Center of La Alberca (1), Cultural Center of El Esparragal 1), Cultural Center of Guadalupe (1) and Cultural Center of Santiago and Zaraíche (2).

In addition, the Senior Language Club will be launched in 6 locations with different groups: Espacio Joven de Torreagüera, Youth Service, El Carmen Municipal Center, Santa Cruz Municipal Center, Javalí Nuevo Municipal Center and Santiago Municipal Center and Zaraíche.

In total, there will be 22 clubs with 440 young people.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia