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German (Deutsch), is one of the world’s major languages and the most widely spoken first language in the European Union. Around the world, German is spoken by approximately 105 million native speakers and also by about 80 million non-native speakers. Standard German is widely taught in schools, universities and Goethe Institutes worldwide. It is overall the third most learned language worldwide.

The German words “Kindergarten”, “Angst” or “Zeitgeist” are just a few examples of German vocabulary streaming into global usage.

But not just the German language, also its culture has had a significant impact on current world culture over the course of centuries. Germany is commonly referred to “Das Land der Dichter und Denker” (the land of poets and thinkers) which includes in its lineage great minds like e.g. Schopenhauer, Engels, Marx, Rilke, Kant, Nietzsche, Herrmann Hesse or Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz who already in the 17th century discovered the binary system in mathematics, which became the basis of modern computational technologies.

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  • Video and Audio (example)
  • Conversation Sessions (basic introduction up to advanced debate)
  • focus on either modern applied language or literary history
  • additional homework to accelerate your learning process
  • and much more…