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Effective communication plays an important role both in the education, work, and non-work contexts. Among the determinants of successful communication are specialist linguistic skills whose development lies at the core of the didactics of specialist languages. This paper presents the second part of a study that investigates an early stage of teaching/ learning specialist languages in Germany in secondary and higher education. The paper shows the results of interviews with teachers and students, followed by concluding remarks on the research project, and the results of classroom observations and interviews in which interviewees evaluated the core curriculum and teaching materials.