Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Didactics - English - Pedagogy Literature Studies grade: 20 Humboldt-University of Berlin (Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik) course: The Politics of English as a Global Language language: English abstract: English influence on German deals with the question why we tend to use anglicisms and which problems might occur when using them. There will also be a focus on the classification of the borrowing and on the negative reactions to anglicisms.