Every year when the summer term is starting to draw to a close I take stock of our German language courses (a glance at the case study written with my colleagues may show you the context of the teaching of English, French, German and English at the Faculty of Economics, Sapienza University of Rome). Again this year the number of students engaged in learning or improving their German has grown, slowly but constantly, and this despite German being considered to be a difficult language to learn. On the other hand, precisely because of this “bad” reputation, students who choose to learn German are the courageous ones, the motivated ones, without fear of a strong commitment to a language with a rich morphology and, as a student told me last year, of “words that never end”. Read More