The Fundacion del Espanol Urgente has reached an agreement with the Fundacion Guzman Ariza for the opening of a center in Santo Domingo to promote better use of the Spanish language in Dominican media. The center will open in July 2016. The agreement was signed in Madrid by the Fundeu BBVA and the Fundacion Guzman Ariza pro Academia Dominicana de la Lengua.
For this purpose, the Fundeu GA will be created to promote the use of the Spanish language by journalists.
The Fundacion del Espanol Urgente, which is being promoted by Spanish news agency EFE and BBVA and has the endorsement of the Real Academia Espanola, seeks to promote the better use of the Spanish language in the media. To achieve this, it enables consultations from media professionals who seek to use correct Spanish in their work.
Joaquin Muller of Fundeu BBVA says they strive to keep up-to-date with current topics such as the Panama Papers, sports and international fashion. He hopes the Fundacion Guzman Ariza initiative will encourage other countries to follow suit.
Fabio Guzman Ariza, president of the Fundacion Guzman Ariza told EFE that the agreement was “a dream come true.” The foundation has already helped the Academia Dominicana de la Lengua in ventures like the creation of the “Diccionario del espanol dominicano” (2013) and the more recent “Diccionario fraseologico del espanol dominicano” (2016), the first on Dominican Spanish and the second on popular Dominican phrases.
Guzman says that it is apt that the first Fundeu outside Spain should be established in Santo Domingo, the site of the first Spanish permanent settlement in the Americas, its viceroyalty in 1509, first government (1511) and first university in the New World (Santo Tomas, 1538).
