the problem is that there are countries where German is learned by 0 While there are always people around Europe learning French Here in the Iberian Peninsula French is learned by 10 in Portugal almost 20 English is a little more than French while German is only in Portugal by 3 0 0 5 or less in Spain they prefer Italian BTW I don t why why this fuss around this In Portugal English French has the same level While German is side by side with Latin only teached to people of some areas between 16 and 18 yrs old I never had the option to learn German if i would had I would probably learned it dispite not being among the most beautiful of the languages