From "Handy" to "Oldtimer," the German language is riddled with Anglicisms that can be confusing, says DW's Louisa Schaefer, but that can be celebrated too. One of the sweetest things both of my twins ...

Due to the high percentage of Americans of German origin, a widespread belief has emerged claiming that the US Congress, at ...

Before Luther and Goethe, the German language has traveled a long way from its Indo-European roots to New High German. A look at the complex history of a language that's still evolving today. The 2020 ...

On 8 October in Berlin, the president of the Goethe-Institut Klaus-Dieter Lehmann opened a conference series of the Goethe-Institut’s Europanetzwerk Deutsch on the topic of multilingualism. By ...

Take these phrases with you on your mp3 player and as a print-out! Download mp3 - right click and choose 'save target as' In order to see this content you need to have both Javascript enabled and ...

Konrad Duden published his Vollständiges orthographisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache (“Complete Orthographic Dictionary of the German Language”) way back in 1880. That was a brilliant stroke of ...

Our German modules are open to all students (for credits or not), members of staff, and members of the public. Available on a semester basis (11-12 weeks), the modules aim to develop language ...

Apostrophes aren’t used to show possession in German in most cases, but the highest authority on the language is changing that. Here’s the scoop on the English ‘idiot’s apostrophe’ - and why critics ...

Any Slavic language-speaker will have noticed the huge number of German loan words, but there are hardly any slavic-origin words in German. But let's take a look at a few which have stuck in Germans’ ...

Nguyen Quoc Binh, former Principal of Hanoi-based Viet Duc High School, speaks on the positive side of teaching school pupils the Korean and German languages Nguyen Quoc Binh, former Principal of ...