WHY learn GERMAN?

There are myriad of reasons to learn German. Read about German language history and language facts, German dialects and varieties and about the most effective ways of learning German.

Good reasons for learning German:

• Communication

  German is spoken by more than 120 million people in Austria, Germany, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland, and in parts of Belgium, Northern Italy and Eastern France.
  
  

• Business

  German is a key language in the European Union and the new economies of Central and Eastern Europe. Learning German improves your chances of success on the job market.
  
  

• Culture

  German is one of the most important cultural languages. It was spoken and written by Goethe, Mozart, Beethoven, Freud, Klimt and Einstein, and numerous other great artists and scientists. Today, 10% of all books published world wide are in German language.
  
  

Learn German online:

• Individual progress

  With our interactive German courses you can study German as intensive as you choose whenever you choose to.
  
  

• Learn German for free

  German grammar rules, interactive German exercises and German tests for beginners and advanced learners of German - and for free!

Learn German - directly where it is spoken

• Effective and lasting improvement

  Total immersion will greatly improve your German. A German course abroad is intensive and effective - and it is fun, too!
  Even when shopping you will enlarge your vocabulary, learn about pronounciation and intonation and find out in great detail about a foreign culture, history and mentality.
  
  

• Austria and Germany

  Due to its unique history German language did not develop a binding standard for a long time. Standard German does not have its origin in a local dialect but was artificially created by poets, philosophers and scholars.
  All German languages schools, which are recommended on this site, teach correct standard German.