Is the notion of beer swilling strongmen a Bavarian thing ? Or is it not limited to Germans ? Because Slavic people are a different race to the Germanics and tend to be bigger and stronger. What about Olympic weight lifters ?
There are few books in German that I'm interested in reading and it doesn't look like they'll be translated into English or Hebrew any time soon. I thought I might attempt to learn German to able to read them myself one day.
At the moment, I'm not interested in learning to speak German, just to...
1) India needs a pan-India link language so that it does not lose its cultural heritage
2) Bollywoodised Hindi is unfit due to it being closer to Farsi/Arabi rather than South Indian languages
3) Given influence of Sanskrit on pan-Indian languages, it has the potential to be a link language...