Enhancing Bilingualism : Trainees Receive End-of-course Certificates

Within the context of promoting bilingualism in Cameroon, certificates have been handed to some 150 persons of five batches (2018-2023) who have completed the bilingual training programme at the Pilot Linguistic Centre in Yaounde. The programme is placed under the Coordination of the Secretariat of the Presidency of the Republic and has the objective of training Cameroonians in understanding the two official languages, and using them for communication. The solemn award of certificates to trainees who have completed the bilingual training programme took place on January 19, 2024 and was presided at by the Director of the Yaounde Pilot Linguistic Centre, Edibi Fama, on behalf of the Coordinator of the Bilingual Training Programme.  
Congratulating the recipients, the Director of the Centre also noted that the products of the institution are generally good given that a 30-page dissertation is written in the language being learned and defended before a jury and the public. Instituted in 1990 by the Head of State as a measure of promoting the equal use of the two official languages, Edimbi Fama said they now have annex offices in all regions of the country and can train 20,000 persons per year. Besides coming to the Centre to learn one of the official languages of Cameroon, the institution also uses the opportunity to promote the linguistic heritage of the country. It is on this backdrop that her plea to the Coordinator of the training programme is to ensure that the structure is upgraded to an ultra-modern one that will serve as the headquarters of bilingualism training. 
Speaking on behalf of the recipient, Colonel Tatiana Ondoua Mfana said the training has offered them a new way of thinking and communicating. She thanked the...