- The course was taught at the Magaluf CEPA (Adult Education Centre)
- "Welcome to a culture and a way of life that is now also yours."
One hundred foreign residents of the municipality of Calvià have joined the Spanish-speaking community by completing the Spanish Course taught at the Magaluf CEPA (Adult Education Centre). This Monday, they received their diplomas from the Mayor of Calvià, Juan Antonio Amengual, and the First Deputy Mayor, Esperanza Catalá, at an event held at Can Verger Municipal Library in Calvià Vila. The event was attended by people from Germany, Armenia, Algeria, Wales, England, Belgium, Estonia, Pakistan, Russia, Ukraine, Iran, and Canada, amongst other nationalities.
Amengual recognised the work of the centre's teaching and management team, as well as the students' efforts, noting that "languages are tools of communication, means to unite us, never to separate us. And there is no better way to learn about a culture and live with it than to learn its language."
Along these lines, he invited the graduates to "become an active part of Calvià's culture. Welcome to a culture and a way of life that is now also yours."
Magaluf CEPA is a modern educational centre, the result of an agreement between the Regional Ministry of Education and Calvià Town Hall, with an educational offer that includes literacy groups, vocational training courses, university entrance exam preparation groups, and language courses, amongst other wide-ranging options. It has 10 multipurpose classrooms, 4 workshop classrooms, 1 computer room, and a library. More than 700 students have enrolled this academic year, approximately 47 percent of whom came from other countries.