![]() Almost half of the jobs created by German companies are in manufacturing.German businesses accounted for 10.5% of the 6.1 million insourced jobs in the US in 2013. ![]() German companies such as Adidas, BASF, Bayer, Bosch, Lufthansa, SAP, Siemens, T-Mobile or Volkswagen employ over 640,000 workers in the US.About 3,500 German majority-owned business operations are present in the US.Knowledge of German gives you an average annual salary boost of 4% in the US and even more in Europe.Still need more convincing? Consider these facts and figures (source: ACTFL) Learning German can broaden your cultural horizons. Knowledge of German opens up a cornucopia of opportunities such as: working for a German company abroad or in Silicon Valley, traveling in and learning about German-speaking countries, or enjoying the literature, music, art and philosophy in their native language. Moreover, German connects you with the largest number of native speakers in the European Union and, by extension, to one of the world’s ten most commonly spoken languages. Study German along with your Business major to open up that opportunity. Knowing German also offers the benefit of being a gateway to the largest economy in Europe and the third strongest in the world. Why not! After all, with so many similarities with English - think Hand/Hand, schwimmen/to swim, Ring/ring, just to name a few - when learning another Germanic language English speakers already have a head start.
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