A teacher writes a maths problem on a whiteboard in a German school. Photo: picture alliance/dpa | Julian Stratenschulte In a bid to improve lacklustre results in reading and writing following the ...

Primary schools should focus on German reading and math instead of English, the president of the German Teachers' Association has said. His remarks come as German students score lower than peers in ...

German is one of the most popular European languages. Several countries use the language outside of Germany as well. It’s difficult to travel to that part of the world without running into the German ...

It has become commonplace to hear that English is now a sort of “global” language, or lingua franca. Although this might be partly true, is it right to draw the conclusion that native speakers of ...