German institutions and schools located all over the World are the main instruments to help this diffusion. Even though German might not be the first language in the school curricula, the number of people learning and/or using it worldwide runs around 128 million.
On the other hand, the knowledge of German gives you access to one of the best educational systems in the world. For instance it gives you access to more than 350 universities and institutes of superior education, some of world-wide reputation. Additionally it is a language that maintains its scientific relevance, due to classical works in many of the branches of the human and social sciences, as evidenced by the continuing relevance of authors like Goethe, Kant, Marx, Freud, Weber or Einstein, whose original works can only be read in German.
Despite the fact that it has a weak standing in the United Nations and the European council, it is considered a "working language" - the official languages being French and English - nevertheless German in Internet is in second place in the Wikipedia, according to the classification on the basis of the number of articles.
The German Government wants to motivate young people to learn German through original events and projects all over the world. With this goal in mind it has created a network of more than 1,400 schools and it has planned an Olympic competition for students, linguistic camps and a juvenile parliament.
On the other hand, the knowledge of German gives you access to one of the best educational systems in the world. For instance it gives you access to more than 350 universities and institutes of superior education, some of world-wide reputation. Additionally it is a language that maintains its scientific relevance, due to classical works in many of the branches of the human and social sciences, as evidenced by the continuing relevance of authors like Goethe, Kant, Marx, Freud, Weber or Einstein, whose original works can only be read in German.
Despite the fact that it has a weak standing in the United Nations and the European council, it is considered a "working language" - the official languages being French and English - nevertheless German in Internet is in second place in the Wikipedia, according to the classification on the basis of the number of articles.
The German Government wants to motivate young people to learn German through original events and projects all over the world. With this goal in mind it has created a network of more than 1,400 schools and it has planned an Olympic competition for students, linguistic camps and a juvenile parliament.
In brief, globalization has put pressure on all the languages and has promoted English as the world language. This notwithstanding it can be predicted that German will be an important language in the future.
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