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Germany's (single) national official language is German. The dominance of German in schools, politics, the legal system, administration and the entire written public domain is so great that for a long time the lack of a coherent language policy was not seen as a problem. State restraint in this area is due, on the one hand, to historical reasons; on the other hand, it has been promoted by the federal system in Germany, which grants the federal states far-reaching responsibilities in the fields of education and culture. More recently, multilingualism among the population has increased and has resulted in a growing interest in understanding the language situation in Germany and (in particular) taking a closer look at the different minority languages. In 2017, for the first time in about 80 years, there is a question on the language of the population in the German micro census. The Institute for the German Language has also carried out various representative surveys; in the winter of 2017/201, a large representative survey with questions on the language repertoire and language attitudes is in the field.
Grußwort/Welcome address
(2018)
“To cleanse and at the same time enrich your mother tongue is the task of the brightest people.”
With this quote Goethe, the famous German poet, seemed to have described the work of EFNIL today. But is our task really that easy? Do we “cleanse” our language by deleting superfluous elements? Do we not lose the rich abundance of a language in so doing? Or is Goethe asking for other languages to be prevented from influencing his mother tongue? Would this even be feasible in a globalised world?
Rudi Carrell, a famous entertainer on German TV, once said:
“When I came to Germany I only spoke English. But the German language contains so many English words nowadays that I am now fluent in German!”
His opinion is probably shared by many people learning German.
My daily job is to support around 100,000 schools abroad that offer German as a foreign language. We ask ourselves daily: which German language should we be offering young people today? The classical German of literature? Or practical German which will enable young people to join the workforce of many German companies worldwide? And most of all: how do we motivate young people to learn German? Or any other foreign language?
Yes, English, French, German, Spanish – these languages are in competition in many schools. But the most important fact is: the benefit lies in learning a foreign language, no matter which. Because by learning a foreign language we start to understand foreign cultures and other people. And THAT is what matters.
Die diesjährige Jahrestagung des Leibniz-Instituts für Deutsche Sprache in Mannheim mit dem Titel „Deutsch in Europa“ zielte auf eine Perspektivenerweiterung ab. In zwölf Fachvorträgen, neun Projektvorstellungen im Rahmen einer Methodenmesse und einer Podiumsdiskussion wurden sprachpolitische, grammatische und methodische Aspekte des sprachlichen Nebeneinanders in Europa, des Sprachvergleichs und des Deutscherwerbs diskutiert.
Einleitung
(1994)