Germany is relying more on foreign doctors to fix a crunch in its healthcare system but a notoriously daunting language barrier is complicating patient care, with potentially disastrous results. State ...

Minority languages in Germany are in danger of extinction and legislation must be drawn up to protect them, according to a Council of Europe report released on 9 July. Minority languages in Germany ...

The website of Germany's Federal Office for Migration and Refugees, which says that each state has various programs dedicated to German language education for children and youth, is seen in this ...

How is it that the culture of German-speaking Europe has so profoundly influenced and shaped Western civilization—and especially the culture of the United States—through the centuries and into today?

Before Luther and Goethe, the German language has traveled a long way from its Indo-European roots to New High German. A look at the complex history of a language that's still evolving today. The 2020 ...

Any Slavic language-speaker will have noticed the huge number of German loan words, but there are hardly any slavic-origin words in German. But let's take a look at a few which have stuck in Germans’ ...