Mission Europe:
Thanks for your support in promoting Mission Europe. The
“Mission Europe” team has successfully finished its first mission: completing
the website and broadcasting the series!
NEW: The Mission
The Mission Europe Web site has been updated and
“Mission Europe” is now ready for take-away so listeners can subscribe to podcasts of all the series in any of the four languages by
going to www.missioneurope.eu and
the “mission interactive”
pages.
Radio broadcast
Mission Europe is broadcast by Radio France
Internationale and Deutsche Welle. Together, they share a potential audience of
30 million listeners in
Web Visits
Since our Web site's launch, Mission Europe has
welcomed more than 30 000 visitors with an average of 500 visitors per day. The
majority of them come from
The first reactions from the public, audiences and the
partners have been very encouraging:
“
„ I already use the
materials in my German classes“
(
-«I want to send you my congratulations for your
job , my students at the
-“Thanks
for these very nice courses” (Carlos, 02/04)
-“I just want to say a big thank you for
this amazing resource that you've made available. It is both enjoyable and incredibly
helpful (…). This is truly an excellent resource which I would recommend to
anyone learning French (…).”
(David, 03/04)
-“I think it's a very extraordinary course” (
The Mission Europe Web site was launched in February
with a quiz on
Expertise
The linguistic experts who have analysed the language
contents share the view of the listeners. They have a positive outlook about the
success of the method on which the series is based:
“An attractive situational-functional approach
in very diversified settings with a good socio-linguistic and socio cultural potential
and a good pedagogic “small steps”- approach.”.
“Thanks to the sound reports and the naturally
spoken dialogues, the Bilingual concept and immersion strategy works as in real
life situations for the level A1.”
(Prof. Martyniuk,
« The format of the serial in 26 episodes
enables a very step by step discovery of the target languages thanks to a
progressive introduction of new communication competences parallel with the
quest of the stories. This approach guarantees the suspense of the story and
motivates the listener”. (Prof. H.T.Siepe, Romanistik,
The Community
As a privileged partner in promoting European
languages, you are invited to share your experiences by using Mission Europe
with other professionals who promote language and culture. Send us your stories,
presentations, tips and lesson plans and we will publish them in our “use Mission Europe” section under “
If listeners and readers would like to express
appreciation for our Web site and the series, they are welcome to fill in the
evaluation form available in 5 languages. You can find it in the
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Should you or your audience have any questions, feel
free to contact us through the “contact”
button at the bottom of each main page.
Thanks to you, “Mission Europe” can grow and be
developed for the production of new language versions of the radio dramas and inspire
the creation of new pedagogical tools.
Thanks again, warm greetings from
Tschüss ! Au revoir ! Do widzenia !
The Mission
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