France/Germany: Alsace
January 14, 2013Advertisement
The once typical bilingualism in Alsace is a thing of the past - young people, especially those from big cities, only speak French. Since the early 1990s, thousands of jobs were lost in neighboring Germany and Switzerland, as well as in Alsace itself - especially jobs that required both languages. It’s also a result of official French policy that once set the goal of driving the German language from the region.