Too little German is taught in Danish schools

Fewer and fewer secondary school students in Denmark are learning German. The daily Jyllands-Posten writes that this stands in stark contrast to the boom Berlin is currently enjoying in Denmark. "The situation is paradoxical. Because while interest in Germany is steadily increasing, young Danes never spoke worse German than they do today. German has become a sort of exotic language threatened by extinction. ... When students in the seventh year start learning German they should naturally have teachers who are enthusiastic about their subject. It would be ideal to have full-time teachers specialised in German. But there are fewer and fewer of these. So students are now faced with teachers with a poor foundation in the language who put little energy into their courses. Unfortunately this tends to be the rule."

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