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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 origin.
And also in Brazil, there are 2 million German speaking people.
Germany and the South America have been having strong connection for a long time.
Even in France, there are 1.2 million people who can understand German.
So we can say that totally about 100 million people speak or understand German in the world.