Finding new and creative ways to teach the German language is something that DW has focused on heavliy over the last few years, with formats like Jojo sucht das Glück and the new Bandtagebuch. This weekend, DW’s language team will be in Berlin for the the leading language learning convention in Germany, Expolingua.  They will be presenting DW’s award-winning interactive learning tools and will also be presenting the successful learning format, Ticket nach Berlin. The presentation at the convention will introduce the format and its didactic concepts on November 16 at 3 pm. The series is a game show featuring learners of German as they complete different challenges on a trip across Germany.  DW’s language learning services are very popular worldwide. The Facebook page DW-Learn German, has over 230,000 fans and the language course websites get around 6 million clicks every month. Every year around 13,000 people visit Expolingua to check out the 150 displays from 25 countries. Around 50 languages are there to be sampled. If you can make it to the convention, be sure to pay us a visit.

 

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Online
DW used the EXPOLINGUA in Berlin to present its new social networking platform for German learners. CommunityD – der Campus officially launched on October 28 and will provide those who want to learn German a great way to improve their skills – with interactive classrooms, chat rooms and multimedia material. The platform also allows students to become the teachers, by letting them upload their own audio and video content, vocabulary lists and other documents.

Europe
EUROBOX made a successful debut in Romania at the beginning of October, after premiering nationwide on the public broadcaster TVR Info. EUROBOX is a half-hour program made up of reports and features with unrestricted rights from DW. It covers current European and German issues, commentaries and a press review. It is adapted by DW’s partners in Romania and presented by a Romanian host. It will be broadcast on TVR Info on Saturdays with a second run on Sundays.