Czech pupils no longer learn German

"Young Czechs are no longer interested in learning German," Jana Machalkova notes. "The kids at schools mostly want to learn English. They choose either Spanish or Russian - not German - as their second foreign language. The sinking popularity of German is also evident at universities. Jaroslav Kovar, head of the German language and literature department at Masaryk University in Brno, observes: 'In a couple of years we won't even need entrance examinations. We'll count ourselves lucky that anyone still wants to study German.' If this trend continues, the German departments may disappear completely from the country's universities, as they already have in Italy and the Netherlands."

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