“The industries of the Country, which have focused on internationalization have brought and continue to bring a fundamental contribution to the cause of our culture and of our language, expressing that civilization and that humanism of the work that is so much a part of our baggage”. He said the president of the Republic Sergio Mattarella in his speech to the ‘States general of the Italian language in the world is going on in Florence. “Every sector of our Country, – underlined the head of State – is called to be a source of inspiration and approach to the Italian culture and can not be missed, in this direction, initiatives aimed at the attraction of talent in Italy, along with those directed to the return of the Italian talents that have grown their skills abroad”. The world of science and research, “is referred to first in this sense. But, underlying all this, there is, of course, the need for an expansion of the knowledge of the Italian language”.
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the Italian for foreigners important channel for the propagation of the cultural
“Next to the export to the teaching of Italian (yesterday addressed almost exclusively to our community of immigrants and that goes, more and more, also addressed to young people in their respective Countries), today the Italian for foreigners in Italy has become another important channel of propagation of cultural”, he said the president of the Republic at the conclusion of the general States of the Italian language in Florence in the Salone dei Cinquecento of the Palazzo Vecchio.
In the Americas 500 thousand people are studying Italian
Enhance tv programmes for italians abroad
To the head of the State is “indispensable to the strengthening of the tv channels in Italian language dedicated to foreign content for the internet: it is a special mission that public service broadcasting must accomplish, with great attention to the cultural offer overall that Italy is able to put in the field”. This offer will not only our communities abroad, seeking quality broadcasts, but will also contribute to the role of a ‘lingua franca’ that, in many cultural fields – art and music among these – the Italian is found to perform”. The question, underlined the president of the Republic, regarding “the support to the publishing of the Italian language abroad: it is the media that need to be sustained”.
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does Not confine the Italian language tradition
it is Not fair nor realistic to consider Italian, the language of “tradition” and English is the “language of modernity”: it is “a false alternative,” said Mattarella. “Language is the carrier of the values of the identity expression of the culture of a people. This function, in particular, is confirmed for the Italian culture, but with an aftertaste ” – sometimes it captures – that would seem to want to confine to the past, he explained, the culture of the tradition, relying, instead, for other languages, the English, for example, the function – in addition to that of the target language that is prevalent today, and the language of modernity, innovation, and contemporary. This is a false alternative; to which we must escape.
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