10 reasons why more Australians should take up German classes.

10 reasons why more Australians should take up German classes.

Why learn German?

Whatever your plans for the future, knowing German will create endless opportunities for you. Learning German means acquiring skills that can improve the quality of your professional and private life:

1. More business success: Communicating in German with your German-speaking business partners* leads to better business relationships and thus to better opportunities for effective communication – and thus to success.
2. An exciting global career: With German language skills, you improve your job opportunities with German companies in your own country and in other countries. Good German skills make you a productive employee for an employer with global business relations.
3. Understand and impress German tourists: Tourists from German-speaking countries travel a lot and far, they spend more money on their holidays than tourists from other countries. They like to be pampered by German-speaking staff and German-speaking guides.
4. Science and research: German is the second most important language of science. Germany ranks third in the world in its contribution to research and development and awards research scholarships to foreign scientists.
5. Understand the world better: Developments in media, information and communication technology require multilingual communication. A number of important websites are in German. Germany ranks 6th among 87 countries worldwide in terms of the annual production of new books, after India, UK, USA, China and Russia. Your knowledge of German will therefore give you extended access to information.
6. Deepen your cultural understanding: learning German means gaining an insight into the lives, aspirations and dreams of people in German-speaking countries with their multicultural society.
7. More authentic travel experiences: Use your knowledge of German to deepen your travel experiences not only in German-speaking countries but in other countries in Europe, especially in Eastern Europe.
8. Dive deeper into German literature, music, art and philosophy: German is the language of Goethe, Kafka, Mozart, Bach and Beethoven. Deepen the enjoyment of reading and/or listening to their works in their original language.
9. Gain Study and work opportunities in Germany: Germany awards a large number of scholarships to study in Germany. Special working holiday visas are available for young foreigners*, and there are special provisions for work permits for certain professions.
10. Take part in exchange programmes: There are agreements for the exchange of pupils and students between Germany and many countries in the world.