German is an Important World Language
The German Language is:
  • one of the very most important languages for communication in Europe. Around 100 million people use German as their native language. German is spoken not only in Germany but also in Austria, in large parts of Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg as well as areas of Northern Italy, Eastern Belgium and Eastern France. There are native speakers of German throughout Eastern Europe all the way into the Ukraine.
  • alongside Russian, the most frequently spoken native language in Europe and is one of the ten most frequently spoken languages in the World.   
  • one of the primary literary languages of the world. 18% of books published world-wide are in German. Over 60,000 new books are published in Germany each year. The German language boasts the third largest number of published books in the world.   
  • second only to English in the field of scientific publications. 40% of scientists in the USA recommend that their students learn German. In Poland and Hungary the figure is over 70%
  • the second most widely used language on the Internet.
  • the language of some of the most influential people in history such as Goethe, Nietzsche, Kafka, Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, Freud and Einstein.

Germany is:

  • the most important trade partner for almost all European and many non-European countries.
  • the second largest export nation in the world after the US.
  • the third leading trade partner with the US after Canada and Mexico.
  • the third largest industrial nation in the world.

German Corporations:

  • have over 2500 subsidiaries and affiliations in the US.
  • employ nearly 600,000 Americans.
  • have investments in the US well exceeding $600 billion.