In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, RV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Sören Kuklau wrote: > >> German is a lot harder than English, yes, but there are even more >> difficult languages. German is one of the most important languages - >> after English, Chinese and Japanese. > >And what is it that makes a language important?
Its prominence in the sciences? Not too long ago many US Universities required German in their Chemistry/ChemE curricula. English clearly is *the* international language of commerce, but other languages can be significant for reasons other than the numbers of native speakers. OTOH, since the reunification Germany's population is what, about 88 million? Clearly a significant percentage of the western world. Peter Stein
