09 August 2009
Massassoit Community College, located in Brockton, Massachusetts, considered the most Cape Verdean city in the United States, will continue to offer semester courses in Crioulo, the Cape Verdean language, for American professionals and college students. The course has been administered by Cape Verdean professor Agnelo A. Montrond since its inception.
For its fall semester, Massassoit Community College is offering two courses in the Cape Verdean language, which is currently spoken by about 1/3 of the population of Brockton.
The Cape Verdean Crioulo I course will initiate participants in speaking, understanding, reading and writing the Cape Verdean language, with a special emphasis on the dialect spoken on the island of Santiago. Students will learn the fundamental basics of Cape Verdean grammar, as well as basic vocabulary and pronunciation. Various aspects of Cape Verdean culture will be compared and contrasted with American culture in the course as well.
The Cape Verdean Crioulo II course continues, along the same lines, with the development of participants’ capacity to speak, understand, read and write the Cape Verdean language. They will continue to learn, explore, compare, contrast and analyze various different aspects of Cape Verdean culture as well. Massassoit Community College’s Department of Modern Languages recommends the course to students with at least one year’s previous study of the Cape Verdean language on the high school level or one semester on the university level.
Massassoit Community College has been offering courses in the Cape Verdean language since 2002.
Source: A SEMANA
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