German, with the exception of Russian, is the most widely spoken European language. German is an official language of the EU. It's spoken in Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein. Speaker communities exist also in Italy, Poland and Alsace. Over 120 million speak German natively.
Germany is the world's largest contributor to research and development. Most of the world's scientists have studied in German-speaking nations. German is the second most commonly used language in which to write a work of scientific research - especially engineering, chemistry and physics. This is why more than 40% of American scientists recommend that their students should learn German. In Hungary and Poland the figure is even higher, at over 70%.
Germany has the world's third biggest economy. It has the largest economic and political influence in Europe. Whilst German ranks 12th in the world in terms of the number of people who speak the language, it ranks third when measured in terms of GNP ($1,090 billion), behind only English and Japanese. With ever more firms opening subsidiaries on the European mainland, learning German is becoming an ever smarter career move. And with such German-based firms as Daimler-Chrysler, BASF, Bayer, Hoechst, BMW, Siemens and Volkswagen so firmly rooted on the international scene, learning German appears to be twice as sensible a career move! At the moment, Germany is crying out for qualified software designers in particular, and German is the second most used language on the Internet.
Many of the founding documents of European culture have been written in the German language: Literature (Goethe, Schiller, Thomas Mann, Kafka), Classical music (Bach, Beethoven, Mozart), Art (Kollwitz, Dürer, Klee, Kaninsky), Psychology (Freud, Jung), Philosophy (Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Benjamin, Adorno), Science (Einstein, Kepler, Röntgen, Planck, Virchow), Reading or hearing them in the original language is the only way of appreciating their full power. Germany itself is the world's third biggest producer of books: 60,000 new German-language books are published every year. Every tenth book published in the world is written in German.
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