Imagine being in a meeting room with colleagues from Greece, Russia, Egypt and Germany, each speaking their own language, each hearing everyone else in their own language, too. That is the world Jarek ...
German Studies is a small student-focused program, providing courses in German language, culture, business, and history from the Middle Ages to the present. All students are encouraged to study abroad ...
Most Germans these days can hold a basic conversation in English, but this was not the case at the gigantic office stationery factory just outside Berlin where I spent a year of my 20s working.
On 1 July, the UN celebrates the German language, an official language of the host countries of the United Nations Office at Geneva and the United Nations Office at Vienna as well as half a dozen ...
How is it that the culture of German-speaking Europe has so profoundly influenced and shaped Western civilization—and especially the culture of the United States—through the centuries and into today?