With its focus on building students' listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills, Deutsche heute presents grammar in a concise and clear format, and introduces students to contemporary life and culture in German-speaking countries. This edition offers a greater integration of all program components to foster language learning and skill development and has been revised to reflect the Rechtschreibreform (German spelling reform). Each Bausteine section is accompanied by an illustration that provides visual clues to the dialogue situations. Land und Leute cultural notes are accompanied by a Diskussion section which provides activities that ask students to compare their own culture to that of German-speaking nations.