Opening in Mannheim in 2028, the Forum Deutsche Sprache will be part language museum, part science centre – a place where visitors can discover, explore and actively engage with the German language. Prof. Dr Henning Lobin, scientific director of the Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS) and the main force behind the project, explains what makes the Forum so significant and previews the fascinating programme ahead.

Rukiye Samanci knew exactly how to explain maths - but only in her mother tongue. At first, she sometimes felt like the little mermaid who dreams of a prince above the water but has no voice to speak to him.

Manuals, deliberations, data analysis tools... For about twenty years now, experts have been struggling to make German officialese more comprehensible. But there’s still a lot of work left to do.

The World Wide Web seems to be the new classroom of the digital age. But physical real-life spaces still serve an important function even in online German classes. Here are some thoughts on the concept of deterritorialization and its significance in foreign language teaching.

A look at German university curricula shows that teacher training has yet to be internationalised all over the country. In a recently published anthology of articles on the subject, the SCHULWÄRTS! research hub explains why it’s so important for teacher trainees to do placements abroad.

The consequences of the pandemic pose an unprecedented challenge to education systems all over the world. Teachers and students have been particularly hard hit in the US, where the virus continues to spread unabated. The upcoming reorganization of the schools there will radically change teaching in America.

In 2015, Ahmad Al Zoubi fled from his Syrian homeland. Today he studies mechanical engineering in Germany. Like other refugees now at a German university, he was helped into higher education by the Integra language programme.

In the German parliament, there is a special editorial team that has the task of making the wording of laws easier to understand. Sibylle Hallik, the leader of the team, about the challenge of expressing complicated subject matter in a simpler way.