The volume brings together contributions to linguistics and the didactics of German as a foreign language from the IV International Conference of German Studies, which took place under the title "Intercultural Explorations: Living, Writing, and Learning in Two Cultures" in September 2010 at the Christian University of Partium in Oradea. The linguistic section of the volume includes both contrastive studies on syntax, word formation, and phraseology of German, as well as contributions to conversation analysis and manifestations of bilingualism. The contributions from the section on German as a foreign language address new didactic approaches that increasingly take into account the intercultural realities of life.