Between Heino and Tokio Hotel – German Language Abroad

Jeroen Darquenne, a professor at the University of Namur speaking at a conference on the theme of the German language abroad.

Darquenne: The role of German language in the complex fabric of our western neighbor is widely used in the talks after all, and is the German, in addition to French and Dutch, one of the three official languages that in Belgium are given.

Germany’s success is also in pop music, and the Europeans, more recently, bands like Tokio Hotel is that you have an interest in the German language and culture which grew at least as long as they have begun Tokio Hotel to sing in English, Darquenne said with a smile.