The German Language: To Be or Not To Be?

... German but also what kind of German is spoken. Will we witness a sort of socio-cultural apartheid with de facto two societies, two languages and two worlds? No answers seem yet to exist to these fundamental questions. * * * Despite the challenges facing Germany and the German language, the tongue of Wolfgang Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, Thomas Mann and Gunter Grass is far from doomed. Although the dissemination of English in global business communication is extensive, one may say that an optimist would learn English ...