Why Should you Learn German?

Besides the fact that Germany is one of the most economically powerful countries and that they are current FIFA World Cup winners, there are many other very important reasons why studying German is important. Whatever your field of study is, learning German greatly increase your chances of improving professional skills and competitiveness.

1. Germany is the third world´s economy and #1 in exports. German products are of high quality and highly desirable. To learn German means to provide for a better opportunity of landing into this awesome and non-stopping European economy. This powerful economy expands to other nations providing work opportunities worldwide. Think of companies such as BMW, Siemens, Lufthansa, Bosch, SAP, and many more with partners all around the world. Knowing the German language provides a better opportunity of successful relationships with these companies.
2. The German language has a huge cultural and scientific heritage. All you have to do is think of Goethe, Marx, and Kahn. How about Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss, and Wagner. The most famous scientist, Einstein and many others are a testimony of German huge heritage to humanity. Many important areas of everyone´s lives are somehow affected by discoveries made by Germans. Graduate programs in major universities require their graduates to have at least a basic level of German knowledge. To this you must add that 18% of world literature is written in German and very few of these are translated. The only way to access this steam of knowledge and innovation is to learn German.
3. The internet domain.com is, of course the largest one on the Internet. Technically it does not belong to any country, even though we know it is the one used by USA as own. But the Germany domain,.de, is the second most used domain in the Internet. So basically, Germany rules the World Wide Web with more than 8 million domains. The closest competitor,.uk, has an approximate 3.7 million domains.
4. Germans are hard workers but they are also hard travelers. With a high-standard way of living and average six weeks of vacation per year, Germans are the greatest spenders of tourism dollars. You find Germans traveling practically everywhere in the world. They usually travel to the Northern Europe countries and the Americas. This means that they have established their presence in many places. Tourist agencies that know this, require their guides to know German. So guess who is going to have an advantage on getting the job as a tourist guide in places where Germans tour the most.
5. Germany is a very powerful economy that is sustained by its hard-working population. But they also realize that international cooperation is essential to maintaining their leadership. This is the reason why Germany has a strong fund for educational international cooperation. We are talking about more than 60,000 international educational programs. Besides this, foreign students that enroll into German universities, just like German students, pay no monthly tuition. One way to successfully get into a German university: learn German.