{"id":646,"date":"2010-03-03T17:53:50","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T17:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=646"},"modified":"2010-03-03T17:02:49","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T17:02:49","slug":"sprechen-sie-deutsch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/03\/sprechen-sie-deutsch\/","title":{"rendered":"Sprechen sie Deutsch?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Guido-Westerwelle.jpeg\" alt=\"Guido Westerwelle\" title=\"Guido Westerwelle\" width=\"129\" height=\"86\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-647\" \/>Um, no. I don\u2019t. I learned a little in school, and was apparently quite good at it, but all of that knowledge has disappeared now. My apologies to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Foreign_Minister_of_Germany\">German Foreign Minister<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guido-westerwelle.de\/\">Guido Westerwelle<\/a>, who is on a mission to promote his native language.<\/p>\n<p>Westerwelle is promoting his global campaign called \u201cLanguage of Ideas\u201d which aims to encourage more people to speak <a href=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/language\/german.html\">German<\/a>. And why is he promoting German over other languages?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It is the key to more than 350 German universities and colleges, to Europe&#8217;s largest economy,&#8221; Westerwelle said. &#8220;It grants access to German literature, music, philosophy, and science, to the wealth of great European cultural traditions and, not least, it is the key to realizing one&#8217;s own goals and ideas.&#8221; (Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/02\/25\/AR2010022502449.html\">Washington Post<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are around 101 million native German speakers in Europe with more learning the language. Here in the UK, it\u2019s generally thought that German is an ugly or harsh-sounding language, but Westerwelle calls it \u201cbeautiful\u201d. From my experience, I can say that the sounds become more pleasing the more you hear it spoken! <\/p>\n<p>Are you learning German? Do you think it\u2019s \u201cbeautiful\u201d?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Um, no. I don\u2019t. I learned a little in school, and was apparently quite good at it, but all of that knowledge has disappeared now. My apologies to German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle, who is on a mission to promote his native language. Westerwelle is promoting his global campaign called \u201cLanguage of Ideas\u201d which aims [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,40],"tags":[5,637,635,633,636,634,419],"class_list":["post-646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-german","category-language-acquisition","tag-german","tag-german-culture","tag-german-foreign-minister","tag-german-language","tag-german-universities","tag-language-of-ideas","tag-native-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":649,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions\/649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}