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How Germans are forgetting their own language

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Jörg Luyken
Apr 07, 2024
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Dear Reader,

If you’ve been in conversation with a German colleague recently, and you’ve been making the effort to speak their language, you may have asked yourself why they kept gulping in the middle of words.

Let me put your mind at rest: all that gulping and gagging wasn’t the result of an undiagnosed and potentially fatal…

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