Instructor Antonio Galang with some members of the first batch of students learning Filipino at Humboldt University (photo by A. Galang)
The Advancing Philippine Studies Program at Germany’s premiere tertiary-level educational institution, Humboldt University, just launched its first Filipino Language classes.
Offered to Humboldt University students, the classes offered for the Winter Term are being administered by Filipino Language Instructor Antonio Galang, Jr., from the University of the Philippines.
The language program is one of the major components of the Philippine Studies program launched in July 2019 and overseen by Humboldt University’s Institute of Asian and African Studies in partnership with the Philippine Embassy in Germany. Filipino academic Dr. Rosa Cordillera Castillo serves as Program Director. The funding for the program was made possible through the assistance of the Office of former Senate Finance Committee Chair and now Deputy Speaker Loren Legarda under the Cultural Diplomacy funds of the Department of Foreign Affairs. END
