{"id":44175,"date":"2019-05-13T19:08:59","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T17:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.steinmuehle.de\/blog\/2019\/05\/13\/second-place-for-talea-funk-at-the-national-foreign-language-competition\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T15:44:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T13:44:04","slug":"second-place-for-talea-funk-at-the-national-foreign-language-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/blog\/2019\/05\/13\/second-place-for-talea-funk-at-the-national-foreign-language-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Place for Talea Funk at the National Foreign Language Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A major success in English for Steinm\u00fchlen student Talea Funk: The 10th-grader won second prize in the \u201cSolo\u201d category of the individual competition at the National Foreign Language Competition. As the organizer has now announced, the jury\u2019s evaluations have been completed. During the competition in January, Talea \u201cdemonstrated exceptional language skills, subject knowledge, and creativity in English.\u201d The award ceremony will take place on June 11 in Friedberg.   <\/p>\n<p>In this year&#8217;s National Foreign Language Competition, 242 students in Hesse competed in the &#8220;Solo&#8221; category in English, French, Spanish, Latin, and Ancient Greek.<\/p>\n<p>In the \u201cModern Foreign Languages \/ Solo\u201d category, the jury awarded two first prizes in English to participants from Hesse. In addition, a total of 15 second prizes and 6 third prizes were awarded in the modern foreign languages category, according to Thomas Boiselle, the competition\u2019s regional representative for Hesse. <\/p>\n<p>The Federal Foreign Language Competition is part of the German federal government\u2019s program for promoting gifted students and the corresponding programs of the state governments. It is organized by Bildung und Begabung gGmbH. Bildung und Begabung is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization operating under the patronage of the Federal President.  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17828\" src=\"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/05\/Talea-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/05\/Talea-scaled.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/05\/Talea-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/05\/Talea-1030x687.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/05\/Talea-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/05\/Talea-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/05\/Talea-705x470.jpg 705w, https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/05\/Talea-24x16.jpg 24w, https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/05\/Talea-36x24.jpg 36w, https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/05\/Talea-48x32.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A major success in English for Steinm\u00fchlen student Talea Funk: The 10th-grader won second prize in the \u201cSolo\u201d category of the individual competition at the National Foreign Language Competition. As the organizer has now announced, the jury\u2019s evaluations have been completed. During the competition in January, Talea \u201cdemonstrated exceptional language skills, subject knowledge, and creativity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":44177,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,90,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive","category-contests-awards","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48988,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44175\/revisions\/48988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}