I understand more than I can speak translates as Ich verstehe mehr als ich spreche.
Very probable not more than 0,2 %.
More Belgians speak Dutch than French. German is also officially recognised in the east.
Liechtenstein is the smallest German-speaking country in the world. So there must be more than 90% which speak German. Read here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liechtenstein
With learning, like every language. Some say German seems to be more guttral a language than others though
To learn to speak it, German is harder, yes.
The population of the US that speak German as their mother language is not statistically recorded. The American population of German decent is more than 60 million. Following Spanish, German is the third most used language in the U.S.
Other than a small population of German immigrants (mainly in Argentina), people in South America do not speak German.
Yes. Their first language is Pennsylvania Dutch- (a dialect of German). They speak only this language until they get to be around six at the time they start school. Then they begin to learn English.
92.7% speak Spanish and 5.7% speak Spanish AND some indigenous language (such as Nahuatl or Mayan). The rest speaks indigenous languages only, or another, unspecified language (such as Chinese or Korean).
as a matter of fact, it is. it is a very difficult language that you should have learned when you were little if you wanted to know.
Low German. It's in fact not only a dialect, but a real language. That causes something real odd : The people in the north speak a better High German than southern people. For southern Germans the official High German is just another dialect, because the original local dialect is always a High German dialect. For northern people it's almost a foreign language . So over the last hundred years the northern people learned a perfect High German, but Low German was more and more forgotten. Today the majority in the north can understand Low German, and also speak a little bit, but to meet someone who speaks it fluently isn't that easy.
Queen Victoria was from England. She was born and raised in London, but was more German in her outlook. She did not speak English until well after her third birthday and even after that still added German to it. Her father, though the son of the English King. was more German than English, her mother was German as well as her husband and many of her children where married to German Prince or Princesses.