It is the 3rd most popular foreign language taught worldwide and the second most popular in Europe and Japan, after English.
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.
Germany has the largest economy in the European Union and the fourth largest in the world.
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.
German is the second most commonly used scientific language in the world.
