Philippine Embassy attends Welcome Ceremony for Auxiliares

Language Assistants hosted by the Royal Spanish Academy

The Philippine Embassy in Spain attended the Welcome Ceremony hosted by the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) for this academic year´s batch of Auxiliares Language Assistants for English, French and German speakers to be assigned in Madrid. There are more than 1,600 students who were selected for the program coming from various countries.

Deputy Chief of Mission and Consul General Mark Francis C. Hamoy represented the Philippine Embassy on behalf of Ambassador Philippe J. Lhuillier and gave a brief background of Philippine-Spanish bilateral relations, mentioning that “Filipinos, by history, are Spanish people´s brothers in Asia”, and tackled on the history of language transition in the Philippines.  He provided the group of around 50 Filipino students (not yet including those deployed outside Madrid) from various Philippine academic institutions on how to maximize the fruitfulness of their stay in Spain and to proficiently act as representatives of the Filipinos in general. 

Other officials present in the meeting were Mr. Emilio Viciana Duro, Minister of Education, Science and Universities, Mr. José Ignacio Martín Blasco, Deputy Minister of Educational Policy, Ms. Aurora Egido, member of the Governing Board and RAE librarian, and Mr. David Cervera Olivares, General Director of Bilingualism and Quality of Teaching.  The invited guests came from the diplomatic corps (US, Germany, France, Canada, India, UK, etc.), the British Council and Fulbright Commission Spain.