German Reviews

**where is it spoken?** Well, Germany, of course! And most people know that it's the official language of Austria as well as one of the four languages which are spoken in Switzerland. But it's also spoken in Luxembourg, bits of France and Italy and in random parts of Russia and Eastern Europe. And there are actually groups of German ...

To learn another language, a second tongue, is a goal of many people however once you begin you start to realise just how complex this is. The study of German is a much simpler affair for English people than an unrelated language such as Japanese or American - ha ha, little joke there, I don't know what I mean - but once you start getting ...

If you’ve read my op on learning languages (and if not, why not?), you’ll know that at age 6 I showed off my skills and called the German mayor of our twin town an idiot. A few years later, at a Brownies show, my, ahem, “talent” was reciting a poem in German. Can still remember it, “6 mal 6 is 36 und die Kinder sind ...

I thought it was probably about time that I updated some of my really old (and probably really crap) opinions...so here goes (I will leave in the original text and add an update at the bottom). Choosing German at 'A' level is not the easy option, but for me it was the right one. As with GCSE you have to put a lot in and in return ...