Instagram as a German Learning Media

Technology that continues to develop rapidly continues to give birth to various social media that can make it easier for users to carry out various activities, one of the social media that will be discussed here is Instagram. Indonesia itself occupies the fourth position as the world's largest Instagram user after India, the United States, and Brazil (Indonesian data, 2022). Instagram can be downloaded and accessed via Android, iOS, or the web. Seeing the number of students who use Instagram is the reason why the author raised the Instagram application as the material for discussion of this paper. Features available on Instagram such as uploading or editing photos, videos and being able to send messages. Instagram can also be used as a learning medium. There are many informative Instagram accounts that can be used as learning media and sources of knowledge for students and teachers, especially in learning German. This paper describes the idea of the Instagram application as a medium for learning German. The presentation of the contents of the article consists of: i) description of Instagram, ii) how to use Instagram as a medium for learning German, iii) advantages/disadvantages of Instagram as a medium for learning German.