Around the world, approximately 100 million native speakers and also about 80 million non-native speakers speak German, and Standard German is widely taught in schools, universities, and Goethe Institutes worldwide. German is the most widely spoken language in Europe - German is naturally the official language of Germany, and Germany's 83 million people make it the most populous country in Europe. German is also the official language of Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, and Liechtenstein. And other regions of Europe also contain populations whose native language is German: northern Italy, eastern Belgium, parts of the Netherlands, parts of Denmark, eastern France, and parts of Poland, the Czech Republic, Russia, and Romania, as well as in other areas of Europe.

German is not as hard to learn as you might think, particularly if your native language is English or if you already know English as a second language. Modern English and modern German both evolved from a common Germanic ancestor language. There are many similarities in vocabulary and grammar, and German is spelled phonetically meaning that it is easy to predict how a written word sounds and how a spoken word is written. To learn German you can take good books on this language that are easily available in the market. By reading such books, you'll surely get a general knowledge about the language. It means you will see that there are obviously some words like English. This is because English has come from German, French and some others.