Multilingualism remains a key pillar of our education policy, Education Minister Athena Michaelidou said on Thursday, expressing the ministry’s full support for the newly introduced annual German ...

Although it has only around 350,000 speakers in the world, that is, 0.005% of the people on the planet speak Icelandic, this language is still very much interesting and easy to learn for English ...

New chair Oliver Simons outlines his plans and discusses why the study of languages and literature is key today.

Germania of Poughkeepsie, a 175-year-old nonprofit that celebrates German culture, has sought a property tax exemption for ...

I n the lunch room at Academy of World Languages, a PreK–8 CPS multilanguage school, a cluster of fourth grade girls sit ...

Nineteenth- and 20th-century Russian literature. Soviet literature, literature of the first immigration. Soviet cinema and art. The German section of the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages ...

Germany will provide more than EUR 500,000 this year to support teachers working in German-language education across Romania, ...

During World War I, federal agents raided the offices of the German-language newspaper, the Cincinnati Volkblatt, looking for proof of treason.

This Scandinavian language is in the first category of languages that are considered to be closely related to English, with the estimation that it can be learned for 23-24 weeks, that is, 575-600 ...

When Yiddish studies professor Saul Noam Zaritt was denied tenure in June at the direction of Harvard President Alan M. Garber ’76, Zaritt’s own tenure review committee was stunned. They say Harvard ...

Anyone who thinks he may want to concentrate in Germanic Languages and Literature should acquaint himself with some German literature before he makes the plunge. Much of it is better studied than ...