German is also spoken in everyday conversation in south Tirol in north Italy and Alsace sharing borders with Germany. I am surprised that 6 million people can understand German in the U.S.A. I guess that there are many people of German ori…

By contraries, people in Prague don’t understand German, though it was governed by the Habsburg royal family. At that time, excellent Czech students were educated in German. That’s why Franz Kafka wrought his novels in German, though he is…

When I visited Hungary, I found that it was very easy to communicate in German. In my impression, four fifths of people can understand German. I think that it is a relic of “the Austria & Hungary Empire” whose main language was German. Hun…

German is mainly spoken in Germany, Austria and a part of Switzerland. The population in Germany is about 83 million. There are 8 million people in Austria. In Switzerland, 60 percent of people speak German. It is about 5 million. These th…