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Millions of people around the world are learning German as a foreign language and one of the main centres is the Goethe-Institut, with its headoffice in Munich. The Institute runs 129 centres across 80 countries, besides the 13 centres within Germany. There are nine centres of the Goethe-Institut in South Asia, six across India and one each in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Colombo. From extensive to super-intensive courses, professional courses and distance learning programmes, there are diverse options of learning, improving and continuing with the practice and use of German in everyday life.
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Indian student among winners at the International German Olympics German as a foreign language is not easy for all tongues to learn. Some of those who do it nonetheless met in Hamburg for the second Internationale Deutscholympiade – German Olympics. Yamini Vaidya from Mumbai, India, was one of the prize-winners. 
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Uber-cool English-speakers love using German words English-speakers use the German word "über" as part of their everyday slang, but with a new definition and look.
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Learning German with the Deutsch-Uni Online 100 million people speak German as their mother language, and the language remains central to business and research. One of the easiest ways to learn German from anywhere in the world is with the portal Deutsch-Uni Online (DUO).
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Ten reasons for German Too many cases, too many genders, too many rules? Is German really so difficult? No, says bestseller German writer, journalist and translator Bastian Sick. “It’s easy – after all, everyone manages with that.”
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Greater passion for German The President of the Goethe-Institut, Professor Klaus-Dieter Lehmann, talks to Deutschland Magazine about language and identity and why it is worth learning German as a foreign language.
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German – a language learned all over the world German is the second foreign language in the European Union (EU) and when it comes to the 90 million people whose mother tongue is German, it is actually in first place. It is also officially recognised as a minority language in eight countries.
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'The German language is structured in a wonderfully modular way' American bestselling author Jonathan Franzen studied German – in Pennsylvania, Munich and Berlin. An interview about the German language and the “annoying question of gender.”
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Mark Twain on the German language One hundred years ago on 21 April, American humourist, journalist, and author Mark Twain, passed away of heart failure at the age of 74. His critique of the German langauge, which he tried learning himself, is still popular amongst students of the language today.
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Inspiring people to learn German With the campaign 'German – Language of Ideas' Federal Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle aims to promote learning German as a foreign language abroad. Cornelia Pieper, Minister of State in the Foreign Office, introduced the campaign on Thursday, 25th February, at the Federal Foreign Office.
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Bangladesh celebrates one year of partners schools initiative, PASCH On Wednesday, 20th January, Goethe-Institut Bangladesh celebrates the first birthday of the PASCH initiative in Dhaka. PASCH is an international network of schools, coordinated by the German Foreign Office, intended to arouse interest in modern Germany and the German language amongst young people.
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German Diplomatic Missions in South Asia
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