In an interview on Cadena Ser, the president of the Royal Galician Academy demands a pact for the language “whatever happens in the 12J elections.” In his opinion, “it would be a good time to sit down and think about how we can do better to move forward, to correct mistakes, to develop integration policies around the language and to think about the new generations that we want to incorporate into the language of their country”.
Víctor F. Freixanes is committed to providing money to this Galician impulse, but not only, “also lines of action”. Understand that if there is goodwill there should be an opportunity to sit down and talk about it. “An agreement is not impossible, there was a tense time in matters such as spelling, today there are people who are very open to dialogue and we have to work on 90% of what we share, which is a lot.”
In the interview, the president of the Royal Galician Academy also expresses your fear that culture will fare badly from the coronavirus pandemic and be doubly affected. First, because of the direct effects of the coronavirus and, secondly, economically because the budgetary priorities are now different. “Here there will be an objective problem of resources to provide lines of research and work, promotion policies, institutions such as the academy that are altruistic also live on public resources and there will surely be problems ”.
He prefers to wait to see the budget face but predicts a drop because “Culture is always the one that pays for the broken dishes.”
Regarding the decline in speakers of the Galician language, he believes that this is the case because the elderly are dying and the rural area that was the breadbasket of the language disappears, but he also believes that the own language gains “qualitative and conscious speakers”, Young people who speak several languages.
On the Galician Literature Day he points out that the figure of Ricardo Carvalho Calero multiplied the visits of teachers in the first levels of school by 180%. “Never has there been so much talk of a figure to whom the Día das Letras Galegas was dedicated as of Carvalho Calero, people made use of networks and communication technologies during confinement.”
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