Norbert Cyffer, who brought global attention to Nigeria’s linguistic diversity, has died aged 81. His passing raises questions about the future of African language studies in Europe.

Every year, children in Austria, including foreign born infants, must take the MIKA-D test to assess their German skills. But why is this test facing such heavy criticism, and could it soon be ...

One country many people are dreaming about moving to — or at least visiting — is Germany. Maybe it’s the free healthcare or just the soft pretzels with butter everywhere. Either way, you should take ...

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Folk tales offer a kind of fabular impersonality, where an author’s voice is lost in a wider fiction machine or culture of storytelling. That form of multi-voiced impersonality played a big part in ...

Vergangenheitsbewältigung (German: [fɛɐ̯ˈɡaŋənhaɪtsbəˌvɛltɪɡʊŋ], “struggle of overcoming the past” or “work of coping with ...

Die Eile (pronounced like this) basically means a rush or a hurry in German. Just like you can talk about being in a hurry in ...

But it needs one. I immediately thought of German as the most likely language to produce such a word. The grammar of German means that it is a language in many ways uniquely suited to combining ...

High Representative of the European Union Kaja Kallas urged the swift formation of a new government: “The German people have made a choice, and now they need to put together the government.

Ed Turner receives funding from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. Friedrich Merz, the presumptive chancellor of Germany, has confirmed he will seek a ...

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Germany’s conservative leader Friedrich Merz emerged as the winner in Sunday’s election, but the results gave his bloc just one clear path to power with intense pressure to move quickly to ...