Ernst Jünger Antenne2 TV interview 1981.mp4

[FreeDogdylan]

I speak, read and write fairly good English and Swedish. I have studied German for seven years in primary school and one year at high school. I studied Spanish and italian at high school, a year each - because I did not think I could pass higher courses in german. When Im finished with my masterprogram,Im going to take evenings-courses in german,so I can read Junger, Spengler, Eliade (not german) and other (real) conservative writers in their original language.

[STRESSoetsi]

freshfettes interview! moin ich bin auch ernst jünger fan!

[baroh2413]

Germans of the past were better at foreign languages than the ones living today (Ribbentrop and Max Schmeling also spoke english with hardly any accent)

[ErnstJuengerAnarch]

@baroh2413

So he speaks good French I guess? I don't speak it, wish I did.

But surprisingly his English was not much good - I discovered this when I met him a year or two before his death.

[sergei5144]

@ErnstJuengerAnarch When Jünger went to school English was hardly ever taught in secondary schools in Germany. The pedagogic ideal was still to turn people into "musische Menschen" and French was the foreign language of choice. English was the language of the pesky Krämervolk and thus confined to business schools. With all due respect I must say that the present-day English have nothing to be proud of either as far as their command of foreign languages is concerned. Thanks f. upl. from Vienna.

[warriorsoul28]

@ErnstJuengerAnarch you met him?!? wow, thats impressive. how was it?