In France one can marvel at how a language community makes its own Language cherishes and cares for, admires and gives prestige to. Anyone who has attended the admission of a new member to the Académie française or who has attended the imposing “Cité Internationale de la langue française“ pays a visit in Villers-Cotterêts, not far from Paris, and in general, anyone who experiences the admiration of the French, from workers to professors, for their language, wonders what valuable things their own language has to offer – maybe also the underestimated and often despised German.
