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Title | Germany To Promote “Language of Ideas" |
Body | From http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5glTf7ZG-CPQAA2ntidWuZsafEawgD9E3A6N80 Germany to promote `language of ideas" February 25, 2010 Guido Westerwelle drew plenty of sarcastic remarks when he insisted on speaking German to a British reporter just after his election to parliament four months ago. Now, he's making it his official mission to promote his mother tongue. "German is the language at the heart of Europe," Westerwelle said in a somewhat poetic statement Thursday at the outset of his new global campaign for the so-called "Language of Ideas," and he came up with reasons to learn German. The new campaign aims to combine and highlight the multitude of existing language teaching and cultural projects — without actually spending more than the euro300 million ($406 million) provided by the government in 2009. Read the full article at http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5glTf7ZG-CPQAA2ntidWuZsafEawgD9E3A6N80 |
Source | Associated Press |
Inputdate | 2010-03-07 10:56:24 |
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Publishdate | 2010-03-08 00:00:00 |
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