German and English course! Native German teacher – Authentic, calm, and body language lessons for German and English - Guadalajara

How many people in the world speak German as their mother tongue?
Around 130 million people speak German as their mother tongue, or as their second language. German is the most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union and is the official language in seven countries. There are 7.5 million people in 42 countries who are part of a German-speaking minority.

How many people have already learned German as a foreign language?
289 million! It is the total number of people around the world who have learned German at some point, according to a calculation by the Germanist Ulrich Ammon. Another question is, to what extent they have done it. Currently, 15.4 million people around the world learn German as a foreign language, 90 percent are schoolchildren and the remaining 10 percent are adults.

How many words are there in the German language?
More than you might think. German learners soon learn that two nouns combined make up a new word. This makes it difficult to count the total number. In 2013, Berlin philologists estimated a total of 5.3 million German words. In 2017, the editors of the Duden, the standard work of German spelling, calculated that today's German has almost 23 million words (in its basic forms alone). This result is based on a gigantic digital collection of texts from a total of 40,000 fiction and non-fiction books. However, the latest edition of the Duden contains only 145,000 entries. And a normal speaker uses only 12,000 to 16,000 words.

What words are the most common?
„Der, die, das“: Specific articles, which all German students know so well, take first place. They are followed by "in" and "and".

Which word has the most letters?
In the Duden it is: "Aufmerksamkeitsdefizit-Hyperaktivitätsstörung" (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder), with 44 letters.

Why was the International Mother Language Day created?
The UN declared February 21 the International Mother Language Day, because almost half of the 6,000 existing languages around the world are in danger of extinction. German is not one of them, it is one of the ten most widely spoken languages. But in Germany there are regional languages dominated by fewer and fewer people: North Frisian and East Frisian are especially threatened languages, according to the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger.

In class, we will tackle grammar as daily as drinking water or eating during the day.
My work materials include flashcards, textbooks, web pages, podcasts, German movies and series, music and literary books.