German language

German (German: Deutsch) is a West Germanic language. It is spoken in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Luxembourg; natively by around 100 million people. It is the most spoken first language within European Union. There are some people who speak German in Belgium, the Netherlands, France and Northern Italy. There are people who speak German in many countries, including the United States and Canada, where many people emigrated from Germany. It is also spoken in Eastern Europe, Bulgaria, Romania, and Russia. 

German is a part of the West Germanic language family and is much like English and Dutch. Much of the vocabulary in German is related to English, but the grammar is more complicated.

German has a system of cases, and when helping verbs are used, the main part of the verb must be moved to the end of the sentence. For example, "Someone has stolen my car" is Jemand hat mein Auto gestohlen ("Someone has my car stolen"), and "Someone called me last night" is Jemand hat mich letzte Nacht angerufen ("Someone has me last night called").

In writing, every noun must start with a capital letter. German is the only language that still has that rule, but Danish and English did so a long time ago.

Standard German is an official language in Switzerland, but the Swiss dialect of German is difficult to understand for native speakers from Germany and even for Swiss who are not native to speaking German. One reason that the dialects are still so different today is that even if Switzerland adopted Standard German, mostly as a written standard, German Swiss in World War II wanted to separate themselves from the Nazis by choosing to speak dialect over the Standard German.

Swiss German also has some differences in spelling, for example, the letter ß, which is used only in German, is replaced by ss.
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 Dialects 
 Alsatian
 Bavarian dialect
 Franconian Dialect
 Kölsch
 Low Saxon
 Swiss dialect
 Mannheimerisch dialect
 Palatinate German
 Russian (Siberian) dialect

 German numbers 
German numbers are similar to their English counterparts. Like most languages, the German number system is based mainly on the first 10 numbers. They occur over and over throughout all the higher numbers.  However, there is one big difference. Numbers like 21, 45 and 98 have the single digit first, with und  ("and") connecting it to the tens as individual words, for example, einundzwanzig, fünfundvierzig und achtundneunzig (literally, one-and-twenty, five-and-forty, and eight-and-ninety).  
EnglishGerman1Eins2Zwei3Drei4Vier5Fünf6Sechs7Sieben8Acht9Neun10Zehn

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Other websites

 Online German Language Course An online German language course that includes lessons covering pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar.
 German phrasebook at Wikivoyage
 Learn to Speak German  Student Resource
 Free German Language Course 
 German Thesaurus