Language

If illiterate immigrants learned German at all it was mostly in an unstructured and informal oral environment. Things have changed dramatically since immigration law reforms were introduced in 2005.More ...

“If you’ve gone through puberty already, you’ll no longer be able to speak a foreign language perfectly.” This and other blanket statements are not the only thing disputed. But they agree on one thing: Children learn languages differently than adults.More ...

For years there have been heated discussions about the diminishing importance of German in the science world. But what are the disadvantages being debated?More ...

In 2010, Netzwerk Deutsch carried out a statistical analysis of the position the German language enjoys in the world.More ...

The writer and journalist talks with Klaus Hübner about his linguistic homeland, multi-lingualism and ‘literary patchwork identity’.More ...

Secret languages have a thousand-years old history. Today encoding is a firmly fixed element of our everyday life: without encrypting, modern data communication would be unthinkable.More ...

The Archive for Spoken German in Mannheim boasts over 15,000 recordings so that future generations can hear how different German sounded in different regions and parts of the earth.More ...