{"id":393,"date":"2026-09-14T18:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T17:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/germannetworknow\/?p=393"},"modified":"2026-09-14T18:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T17:22:07","slug":"learning-languages-gain-a-superpower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/germannetworknow\/2026\/09\/14\/learning-languages-gain-a-superpower\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning Languages &#8211; Gain a Superpower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cLearn a language, gain a superpower!\u201d<\/strong> \u2013 and that was just the beginning!<\/p>\n<p>On 10 June, teachers participating in the <em>Authentic Language in the Classroom<\/em> project in Birmingham turned their ideas about language learning into creative and eye-catching posters. From inspiring slogans to convincing arguments, they came up with a whole range of fresh ideas to show why learning a language can be so rewarding.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Want to see their ideas?<\/strong> Head over to our Padlet and explore the full collection of posters created in Birmingham!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-317\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/germannetworknow\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2026\/06\/qr_code-2-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/germannetworknow\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2026\/06\/qr_code-2-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/germannetworknow\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2026\/06\/qr_code-2-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/germannetworknow\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2026\/06\/qr_code-2-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/germannetworknow\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2026\/06\/qr_code-2-250x250.png 250w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/germannetworknow\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2026\/06\/qr_code-2.png 982w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLearn a language, gain a superpower!\u201d \u2013 and that was just the beginning! On 10 June, teachers participating in the Authentic Language in the Classroom project in Birmingham turned their ideas about language learning into creative and eye-catching posters. From inspiring slogans to convincing arguments, they came up with a whole range of fresh ideas &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/germannetworknow\/2026\/09\/14\/learning-languages-gain-a-superpower\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Learning Languages &#8211; Gain a Superpower&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2393,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,227,6,25,237,106,8,224,228,234,35,107,223,241,243,229,118,115,232,240,93,238,230,119,242,233,222,69,225,59,239,236,235,11,231],"class_list":["post-393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-authentic-language","tag-authentic-language-in-the-classroom","tag-authentic-materials","tag-birmingham","tag-classroom-ideas","tag-daf","tag-german","tag-german-as-a-foreign-language","tag-german-classroom","tag-german-education","tag-german-in-the-uk","tag-german-language","tag-german-teachers","tag-german-teaching-resources","tag-goethe-institut","tag-language-classroom","tag-language-education","tag-language-learning","tag-language-learning-benefits","tag-language-learning-inspiration","tag-language-learning-motivation","tag-language-learning-projects","tag-language-teachers","tag-language-teaching","tag-language-teaching-ideas","tag-languages-in-education","tag-learning-german","tag-mfl","tag-modern-foreign-languages","tag-multilingualism","tag-poster-activity","tag-teacher-creativity","tag-uk-language-teachers","tag-university-of-birmingham","tag-why-learn-a-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/germannetworknow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/germannetworknow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/germannetworknow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/germannetworknow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/germannetworknow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/germannetworknow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":396,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/germannetworknow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions\/396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/germannetworknow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/germannetworknow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/germannetworknow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}