Learners bag big wins at language competition

The annual sprachwettbewerb is a German language proficiency competition for learners who speak the on a foreign level, promoting the acquisition and maintenance of the language in schools. The competition, that initially started in 1987, has grown in colour and entertainment as it had big names from the entertainment industry in attendance. The likes of Lize Ehlers and EES formed part of the youthful programme that was moderated by Till Kohlwes and Sybille Moldzio-Schonecke from HitRadio.“German is spoken by around 120 million people worldwide and knowledge of it can provide a decisive advantage in a country like Namibia,” Corinna Burth, the organiser of the event and commissioner for educational cooperation at Goethe-Institut Namibia, said.The event continues to attract more participants and grow in audience because of the extravagance of the prizes up for grabs. The prizes for the winners include a brand-new laptop and language courses for further insight into German culture. As a result of the global pandemic, the winners of this year’s competition did not win airplane tickets. The event, which took place on the warm afternoon of Saturday, 7 April, saw the awarding of prizes to the main winners Paula Swart from Edugate Academy, Kayla Diergaardt from Rocky Crest High School, Neyobi le Hané from Berg Op Academy, Amani Mwakambeu from Technical High School and Levine Gauases from Otjiwarongo Secondary School. In the words of the German ambassador to Namibia, Herbert Beck, who personally presented the prizes: "It is a challenge and always brave to take part in a competition, but you can see from the success of this language competition that not only those who have won a great prize, but all those who took part will benefit from this experience and be motivated to continue learning the German language."Furthermore, the prizes presented to the learners was a direct result of the sponsorships from German embassy Windhoek, the Deutsch-Namibische Gesellschaft, the Pädagogischer Austauschdienst, the Arbeits- und Fördergemeinschaft der Deutschen Schulvereine in Namibia and Namibia Breweries.

Learners bag big wins at language competition

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