{"id":964,"date":"2015-12-02T01:53:17","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T00:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/?p=964"},"modified":"2015-12-02T02:18:07","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T01:18:07","slug":"welcomegrooves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/2015\/12\/02\/welcomegrooves\/","title":{"rendered":"welcomegrooves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/files\/2015\/12\/welcome.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-965 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/files\/2015\/12\/welcome-300x215.png\" alt=\"welcome\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/files\/2015\/12\/welcome-300x215.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/files\/2015\/12\/welcome.png 678w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In order to provide an accessible and appealing opportunity for refugees and immigrants to get into the local language, German libraries are starting to participate in the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.welcomegrooves.de\/\">welcomegrooves<\/a>&#8221; project.<\/p>\n<p>Welcomegrooves is a collaborative effort of more than 70 volunteers from the German creative industries and related sectors. Together, they have developed six lesson units &#8220;Learn German with Music&#8221;. In cooperation with refugees, these units have been translated into 23 languages. For the sake of user-friendliness, they can be downloaded as MP3-files onto mobile phones\/devices as well as used online. For both, libraries provide facilities and support.<\/p>\n<p>The idea of welcomegrooves is to give a warm welcome to the people who found shelter in Germany and to help them to familiarise themselves with their host country.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Guido Jansen from IFLA National Committee Germany for passing on this information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In order to provide an accessible and appealing opportunity for refugees and immigrants to get into the local language, German libraries are starting to participate in the &#8220;welcomegrooves&#8221; project. Welcomegrooves is a collaborative effort of more than 70 volunteers from the German creative industries and related sectors. Together, they have developed six lesson units &#8220;Learn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":723,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4005,22830,22829],"class_list":["post-964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-germany","tag-refugeess","tag-welcomegrooves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/723"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":968,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions\/968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}