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Vice President Iliana Yotova proposes creation of internet platform for Bulgarians abroad

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The preservation and popularization of the Bulgarian language is in the focus of the policy directed to the Bulgarians abroad, this country’s Vice President Iliana Yotova said in Frankfurt at a meeting with representatives of Bulgarian Saturday and Sunday schools. Bulgarian language teaching should continue in the upper grades, the participants at the meeting agreed. Vice President Yotova and the representatives of the Saturday and Sunday schools discussed the topic related to the possible recognition of the Bulgarian language as a second foreign language in the German educational system. The need for more Bulgarian language lectureship in the foreign universities was also among the topics of discussion. The project of Vice President Yotova for an internet platform that will allow the Bulgarians abroad to communicate with each other and with the Bulgarian authorities was widely approved.




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