Why study German?

If you're thinking about learning a new language, German could well make an excellent choice:

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  While learning German can connect you to 120 million native speakers around the globe, remember that many people also learn German as a second language.

• It is the 3rd most popular foreign language taught worldwide and the second most popular in Europe and Japan, after English.

• Germany has the largest economy in the European Union and the fourth largest in the world.

• German is the language of Goethe, Marx, Nietzsche, and Kafka, of Mann, Brecht, and Grass. Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, and Schubert, Brahms, Schumann, Wagner, Mahler, and Schoenberg spoke and wrote German, as did Freud, Weber, Einstein, and Heisenberg, Kant, Hegel, and Heidegger.

• German is the second most commonly used scientific language in the world.

• If you want to be a real player in the 21st century, learning German will give you the edge you need.

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  Germany's economic strength equals business opportunities. Multinational business opportunities exist throughout the European Union, America, and in the European Union countries, where German is the second most spoken language after English.

• Whatever plans you may have for the future, knowledge of German will increase your options.