Scholars seek to prolong the German conversation

By Kate Connolly BERLIN

When Londoner Amber Tallon, 30, started learning German at the age of 12, she “took to it like a duck to water”, she said. An A-level in the language and modules in German at the University of Oxford, where she studied history, have helped her to her “dream job”, working as a Blue Badge Guide in London, where some of the large range of tours she offers are in the German language. “[In England] we have such a bad rap for not learning languages, assuming that everyone is going to speak English. I think it’s just polite to learn even the basics of the language … it puts you on the right foot,” she said. She volunteers a few of her favourite German compound words, to illustrate “how creative a language it is…

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Guardian Weekly (Digital) - 1 Issue, 23 August 2024

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