Dance the Salsa on June 19!

New Delhi, Jun 16 (UNI) It seems Spanish is the flavour of the season in films, culture and commerce!

At a time when the 'Hispanic' (Spanish) fever is still on after the release of Hrithik Roshan and Spain's Barbara Mori starrer 'Kites' last month, Salsa will be colouring the streets of Delhi on June 19.

Instituto Cervantes, the Spanish language institute created by Spanish Parliament, will hold the second edition of the Spanish Day on the day to celebrate the importance of Spanish as an international language.

With plays, concerts, movies, magic show, dance, games, children's workshops, food tasting and Mexican cuisine, poetry, cartoons, folklore, 12 Latin American and Caribbean countries exhibition and many more surprises, the day will be full of
cultural activities attended by the language lovers in and around the national capital.

Speaking to mediapersons here today, director of the institute Oscar Pujol Riembau said, ''The day is celebrated across the world with the realisation that around 14 million students study the language as foreign language.''

He noted that the countdown to the event has been for a while. The institute had started a website in March 2010 where the internet users voted for their favourite word in the language or play the 'Game of Spanish', he said.

''The final round of the game will happen on the day giving much opportunity to the language lovers to know more about it. The winners will get a chance to win a free trip to the country,'' he said.

One of the other exciting events during the day would be the ''Rain of Words,'' wherein the Spanish words written on small pieces of soft material would be showered from a height and students would catch them.