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<h1>Govʼt to launch policies to improve foreign language skills</h1><div class="gmail-article-data"><div class="gmail-article-author gmail-col-md-6 gmail-pull-left"> MTI – Econews</div><div class="gmail-article-date gmail-col-md-6 gmail-pull-right"> Wednesday, September 19, 2018, 11:00</div></div><p class="gmail-lead">Hungaryʼs
government has tasked ministries to come up with policy measures to
support recommendations by the National Competitiveness Council aimed at
improving Hungariansʼ foreign language skills, a resolution published
in the latest issue of the official gazette Magyar Közlöny shows, as
reported by state news agency MTI.</p><div class="gmail-cover-image-wrapper"><img class="gmail-cover" src="https://bbj.hu/images2/201804/15241569505084RlAl32JgzLTE_L.jpg"></div><p>The
resolution mandates the ministers of human capacities, finance, and
innovation and technology, as well as the prime ministerʼs cabinet
chief, to put forward policy recommendations on the adoption and broader
use of the latest foreign language teaching methods; on incentives for
using foreign language teachers who instruct in their mother tongue; on
support for dual-language instruction; on performance-based premiums for
foreign language teachers; on promoting subtitles for foreign films;
and on establishing a network of foreign language centers.</p><p>The ministers have until the end of October to make their proposals.</p><p>The National Competitiveness Council, a body of business leaders and experts, was <a href="https://bbj.hu/economy/national-competitiveness-council-holds-first-meeting_130542" target="_blank">established last year</a> to make recommendations to the government.</p>
H<br><div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<br><br> Harold F. Schiffman<br><br>Professor Emeritus of <br> Dravidian Linguistics and Culture <br>Dept. of South Asia Studies <br>University of Pennsylvania<br>Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305<br><br>Phone: (215) 898-7475<br>Fax: (215) 573-2138 <br><br>Email: <a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com" target="_blank">haroldfs@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/" target="_blank">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/</a> <br><br>-------------------------------------------------</div></div></div>