This is the most beautiful German word according to foreigners
A new vote among German language learners revealed what foreigners find to be the most pleasant - and pragmatic - words auf Deutsch.
Why German parties are flyering and advertising in languages from Russian to English
With so many voters apparently still undecided about who to pick on Sunday, parties have taken to advertizing in several languages, desperate for every vote they can get.
'Germans who speak English in Berlin are provincial': Merkel ally attacks hipsters again
Jens Spahn from the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party has spoken out against the use of the English language in Germany yet again. But not everyone feels the same way as him.
Minster wows crowds with Denglisch
Development Minister Gerd MĂĽller recently captivated crowds at the Global Citizen Earth Day in Washington, D.C. with his enthusiastic - if erratic - English. The speech has since gone viral.
German is world's fourth most popular language
After 15 years of research and a 1,300 page book on the subject, sociolinguistics professor Dr. Ulrich Ammon found that German is surprisingly popular with language learners all over the world.
Indian schools introduce German lessons
Hundreds of schools in India are being signed up to teach their children German, in a concerted effort involving some of Germany's top technical universities and the Goethe language Institute.
School: German children cannot learn Turkish
A six-year-old German girl who said she wanted to learn Turkish with her school friends has been told the classes were “only for foreigners”, a newspaper reported on Tuesday.
Study: Deutsch delays dementia
Ex-pats in Germany who are putting off language lessons have just been handed another reason to dive in and learn Deutsch - speaking a second language keeps dementia symptoms at bay, scientists say.