A day like Language is commemorated with enthusiasm and many activities at the School Nueva Lengua. 

Recently our teachers and students in Nueva Lengua coming from all over the world, they celebrated Language Day. An important commemoration in the country's colleges and universities that invites us Colombians to remember the Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.

He contributed to the enlargement of the Spanish language with his work El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha, a work that consolidated the language in universal literature.

Spanish, we recently reminded our students, is the third language in living speakers in the world, having, like English, speakers on all 5 continents.

By number of people, Spanish is the second language in the world behind Chinese. And the third for the total of speakers after Mandarin and English. Also, the third at the communication level, after English and French, in the same position for the production of information in the media and Internet portals with 256 million users in the language.

As if that were not enough, it is estimated that in 2050, Spanish will be the most widely spoken language in the United States according to the Cervantes Institute, an organization created by the Kings of Spain to promote the teaching and learning of the Spanish language.

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In our celebration, one of the games that most amused our teachers and students, in addition to reciting poetry, learning songs, and gathering people from various nations, was the game of the broken telephone.

Applying the knowledge acquired, an initial message was given. Many times it became a mixture of words that were passed from German students to Korean, Brazilian, Swiss, French and Italian in a unique and multicultural moment like all those that are lived in our 3 campuses located in Medellín, Cartagena and Bogotá.

To liven up the afternoon, the teachers characterized themselves as piloneras, a typical costume used by women in the Colombian Caribbean to remember the folklore and the importance of women in trades such as corn pillar, that is, shelling corn with their hands.

Formerly, women sang and composed verses in which they narrated their daily lives. Today, it is a costume used in the most important and striking cultural events in the country such as the Barranquilla Carnival, considered oral and intangible heritage of humanity.

Likewise, in Valledupar, the Vallenato Festival begins with a parade of all the women dressed in piloneras costumes of the most varied and striking colors.

A day in which we celebrate our cultural and Spanish roots. A language that, according to the experts of the Academy of the Spanish Language, is spoken with excellence in Colombia and considers the country as the Mecca of the Spanish-speaking language.