In the current selection round, the German Research Foundation (DFG) has granted funding for two new Collaborative Research Centres at the University of Konstanz. Over the next four years, the ...

Exploring theories of language origin, phonetic foundations, and effective learning strategies for fluency Mohd Ishaq Shah How did language come into being? Linguists have cited various theories ...

It’s a song, isn’t it? On second thoughts, it’s the first line of a song, written in 1970 by Francis Lai with lyrics by Carl ...

Many don’t want to leave. As a result, it has long had a healthy British expat community – though since Brexit online forums are full of frustrated UK citizens struggling to find ways to get a visa.

Germans have built a culture around punctuality, privacy, and social responsibility that tourists misunderstand as coldness.

For someone whose life revolves around a true love of the English language and who is razor-sharp at deciphering the whimsies of our mother tongue, Susie Dent doesn’t seem like the sort of person to ...

ALBANY — The state’s second-highest court unanimously ruled that a Poughkeepsie-based German-heritage club could not get a property tax exemption its leaders sought on the basis that they occasionally ...

For instance, in English we use sense or feel. In German, there are several corresponding words, one of which is wahrnehmen, ...

It's beginning to feel a bit like Christmas in Birmingham city centre as the annual Frankfurt Christmas Market gets underway at the weekend. There will be hot gluhwein, crispy crepes and lots of sweet ...

The administrative court in the central city of Brunswick denied the company an emergency injunction against the ban on MON 810 maize, which German Agriculture Minister Ilse Aigner introduced last ...