Suzanne Wasum-Rainer, the German Ambassador to France, met with Education Minister Najat Vallaud-Belkacem on Monday night with concern for the number of students learning German. New educations reforms in the country may include measures to have students start to learn their second language at age 12, which is a year earlier than they do currently. This is worrisome to the German Ambassador because, "extra time spent on a new language could mean that cuts are made elsewhere, which would likely mean a removal of "bilingual" or "international" classes." As most students opt to take English as their second language, followed by Spanish, the ambassador is worried that German will be forgotten.
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