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Goettingen: The song that made history

Inspirational and heart-warming story on BBC Radio 4 Today programme on the French singer, Barbara's song, Goettingen. Sung entirely in German, this song came out shortly after a treaty was signed 50...

READ MORE | 22 Jan 2013

Smiley's Secret: He Wants Us to Love Germany

Wonderful article by John le Carré in the Sunday Times about how Germany and German are an abiding influence on his life and writing. He mentions that while at school his teacher told him that...

READ MORE | 13 Jul 2010

German-dialects-and-migration

German dialects are still a key indicator of where Germans choose to live in German according to an article in The Economist. As the article points out, when people migrate within Germany, they still...

READ MORE | 24 Mar 2010

German railways shunt English into sidings

BBC News - German railways shunt English into sidings. Good to see that the Germans are doing something about the onslaught of English in Germany....

READ MORE | 18 Feb 2010