Learning French is often more than learning English

Fewer and fewer German students are learning French, the Central Statistics Office noted on Tuesday, five days earlier. Elysee TreatySealant Franco-German Compromise. In the 2021-22 academic year, only 15.3% of German students chose to study French at school, a 26-year low. In 1995, they were 15.1%.

German attracted 82.4% of students in 2021-22, with French mostly ahead of English. Nevertheless, French ranks second among foreign languages ​​taught in Germany: Latin ranks third (6.4%), followed by Spanish (5.9%).

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Unsurprisingly, Moliere is admired in France’s border regions: in Saarland, more than half of students (51.2%) learn French at school, compared to 25.8% in Rhineland-Palatinate and 24.3% in Baden-Württemberg. .

In contrast, Mecklenburg-Pomerania (northeast) has only 10.6%, Saxony-Anhalt (east) 10.7% and North Rhine Westphalia (northwest) 11.5%. Paris and Berlin are preparing to celebrate with great fanfare on Sunday 1963 Elysee Treaty It sealed reconciliation and opened an era of unprecedented cooperation between the two countries.