How good is my German?

The test was intended to show how exciting and informative it can be to think about language and grammar, but also that language use surprisingly often cannot be pigeonholed into a right-or-wrong scheme. At the same time, it should become clear that the constant change in language forces us to rethink traditional (pre)judgments about certain grammatical structures.

The test was very well received, with over 200 people completing the questionnaire. As you could take the completed and evaluated test with you on site, our evaluation, which you can view here , is based on just 56 test forms. It is particularly revealing that the percentage of correct answers varies greatly depending on the question: from just under 30% to almost 90%.

Participants in the test were also asked to anonymously state their age, gender, profession and native language on a separate sheet. This data, which you can view here , was provided by a total of 166 people. What is particularly surprising here is the age-independent interest in language issues, the relatively even spread of ages from 12 to over 65, with the strongest group (25%) being students aged between 12 and 18. Less surprising is the fact that two thirds of the test subjects were women.

An impression of our lively German test stand at the Hessentag is given by these pictures.

Contributors:
Lecturers:
Vilmos Ágel, Diana Ernst, Andreas Gardt, Olaf Gätje, Monika Henkel, Miriam Langlotz, Annika Leistner, Christoph Müller and Katharina Siedschlag

Students:
Julia Boczkowski, Julia Heiderich, Marina Henter, Myke Hörner, Matthias Kranixfeld, Ingrid Kutz, Kim-Vivien Lichtlein, Natalie Schmidt, Laura Sievers and Maret Zepernick

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