Major German companies have decided there is one major obstacle to competing in the international market place – the German language. According to the Sunday Times, companies like Siemens AG and Deutsche Telekom have decided that English is far easier for communicating complex ideas in memos and executive meetings. So ambitious employees who want to climb the executive ladders now have to become fluent in English. Experts have concluded that it takes 30% more words to express an idea in German rather than English, which is destined to become the Java of human languages – write once, understood anywhere.
