by Olman Valle Hernández
Five thousand students is the record of active students who will be entering the different classrooms at different levels of the City College on the Mission campus, and 1,700 new students for this next academic year 2024 as part of its academic offer in teaching English to students from different nationalities around the world who live in San Francisco.
For students who enroll at City College, English is the language of international communication, commerce and finance, it is a lingua franca in many corners of the planet and the official language of this country where you can express yourself, communicate, and understanding it is not a luxury, but a universal necessity.
Belkys Adellemo, supervisor of the City College Mission Center Admissions office, said that the team of counselors, teaching staff and admirers do their best to ensure that immigrant students once they enroll and become part of the family of this house of studies they are provided with all the available language learning tools.
“We not only provide support to each student when they register to study English, we provide and develop tools so that everyone, regardless of age, becomes familiar and feels comfortable practicing their pronunciation and grammar, we guide and advise our students “That they learn to develop in other disciplines, such as literature, North American culture and another technical career that allows them to prepare and be competitive in a better and broader world of work,” said Adellemo.
She also emphasized that there are help programs within the school such as a daycare center for those single mothers without financial resources to pay for a babysitter and who have the desire to learn the language. The school provides this service as well as food and easy access to the library with laptop computers so that the student can do their homework and work assigned by the teacher.
Frank Arias, originally from Cuba, is an active student at the school. In his country he dedicated himself to modeling and is a specialist in Cuban gastronomy. He has been living in San Francisco for a year and six months. He expressed that since he left his homeland he had already thought that the first thing he would do when he arrived in the United States would be to study English to be able to communicate.
“Immigrating to a country, where you don’t know anyone and don’t know the language, makes all things complicated. Thanks to the opportunities that school gives us, this barrier is not so difficult and allows us to make the path easier.” making it very easy for you; “I am very grateful for the support that our teachers and everyone who makes it possible for me to grow as a person have given us,” said Arias.
“That reminds me that every day I am there among countrymen and among Latin brothers, it is a pleasure to be there and the most beautiful thing is that it is free of charge, because that helps us take greater interest and responsibility, but above all a great personal commitment ”Arias expressed.
Currently, online and in-person registrations are still available for the new school period that begins on Jan. 16, 2024.
