Online Quechua classes allow more people to learn the language from anywhere in the world through video conferencing.
The spread of Quechua in the United States and Europe is reaching an unprecedented level. Thus, the efforts made by the University of Pennsylvania, through the Penn Quechua Initiative, directed by the Peruvian linguist, Américo Mendoza-Mori, are noteworthy. This initiative has allowed hundreds of North American students to study Quechua as a way of getting closer to our Andean culture.
Similarly, more and more social science scholars are giving Quechua a high profile in their research and theses. Such is the case of Professor Carmen Escalante, from the San Antonio de Abad National University in Cusco, who based her doctoral thesis in Quechua from the Pablo de Olavide University, in Seville, Spain, on the descendants of the Incas and the independence of Peru, as she is a direct descendant of Yawar Waqaq.
Likewise, in 2019, Roxana Quispe Collante supported in Quechua her doctoral thesis on the Cusco poet Andrés Alencastre Gutiérrez, called "Kilku Warak'aq" and his book of poems "Yawar Para", at the National University of San Marcos, which was broadcast live on Facebook.
More and more academics of the social sciences give great importance to Quechua in their research and thesis.
QUECHUA IN THE NETWORK
The boom in the globalization of information with the accelerated expansion of the Internet and social networks has increased the possibilities for anyone in the world to pursue their education through the network. Many efforts are being made to rescue or grow the number of speakers of this language through online courses.
Quechua is no stranger to this abrupt technological awakening, as in recent years we have witnessed the emergence of so-called digital activism, through which various efforts have been generated to use technology in the dissemination of Quechua.
Thus we see that, in Latin America, mainly, radio programs, audiovisual programs, podcasts, blogs, and web pages have emerged with the aim of spreading Quechua to other latitudes. There are also some incipient efforts to create applications for learning the language, or for its diffusion, including stickers, gifs, emoticons which are efforts of creativity and enthusiasm to maintain the validity of Quechua in this information age.
We have witnessed the way in which so-called digital activism has emerged
GLOBAL QUECHUA
Faced with this panorama described about the importance that Quechua is reaching at a world level, the role that the promoters of the Quechua language play is fundamental, as is the case of Lic. Dina Vera Lázaro, intercultural communicator and teacher of Quechua who gives online classes of this language.
The purpose of the online Quechua classes is to promote, spread and revitalize this language which is part of the Peruvian culture.
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