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"Do you speak Deutsch?™" Germany acts to promote language FEATURE 02/26/2010

Friday, February 26, 2010


"Do you speak Deutsch?™" Germany acts to promote language


FEATURE

02/26/2010

BERLIN — Walking past the “Coffee Bar,” advertising “breakfast and bakery” and the “Midtown Grill” offering “great steaks, chops and seafood,” you could easily be in downtown Manhattan or Central London.

But this is in fact Potsdamer Platz, in the very heart of Berlin, the scene for the launch of a new campaign on Thursday to protect and promote German, a move seen as a backlash against the growing use of English
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Spearheading the campaign — entitled “German, the language of ideas” — was Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle, who found himself in hot water when he refused to speak English at his first press conference after being elected.
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