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Living language

Features, interviews, podcasts and a monthly blog exploring how learning a new language opens up worlds of possibilities, changes your outlook - and boosts your brain! Life is more interesting in more than one language. Find out more here...

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OperaThe Magic Flute

Gloriously inventive animation and live action meet the stunning music of Mozart in this fantastically fun interpretation of the enchanted world of The Magic Flute. Don't miss this boundary-busting production by internationally-acclaimed opera company Komische Oper Berlin and co-directed by Barrie Kosky and Suzanne Andrade from British theatre group 1927.

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Radio Show'Goethe on Air': our cultural radio show

Music, news and more from the Goethe-Institut New Zealand on Access Radio. 'Goethe on Air' provides interested listeners in New Zealand with information on all things German. An essential part of every show is to play the best of German music – old and new.

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Film SeriesLifeswap

Lifeswap is a series of short animated Skype conversations between two young men, Jörg, 27, from Münster, Germany and Duncan, 27, from Wellington, New Zealand.