Sharkatag as a learning aid
Great news – in a first for SSACN we have been invited by the prestigious Scuola Lingue Estere dell’Esercito (Army Foreign Language School) in Perugia Italy to visit the school and deliver talks on Marine Conservation, shark tagging and the highly emotive issue of shark finning.
The request came from students at the School who are learning new languages in order to work in embassies and military establishments abroad and who had been using videos from SSACN’s popular Sharkatag and Tagathon events to help them get an understanding of the variety of our regional accents.
Our Secretary, Denis Kelly, will shortly begin a two week long series of talks to several groups of 30 military officers on shark and marine conservation issues relating to Scottish waters as well as participating in a number of other language classes. Such is the level of interest that all the proposed classes are fully booked already.
The whole event is being facilitated by Brigadier General Gianfranco Di Luzio with all the organisation and coordination work being under the control of Professoressa Julie Anne Hobson.
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