I'm not aware of any statistics on this. In any case, there would probably be disagreement about the definition of 'fluent' and possibly of 'British', too.
German is in sharp decline as a school subject in Britain - especially above GCSE (age 16).
This is not really a number that can be measured. German is taught in secondary schools across England but it is not as popular as other languages.
About 1%, (60 000 people)
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In Belgium, an estimated 0.6% of the population speaks German as their primary language, primarily in the eastern part of the country along the border with Germany.
It would be most unusual for a German not to be able to speak German. I therefore answer 99.99% of Germans speak German. The reasoning :- there is a very small percentage of people who have speech impediments that rends it impossible for them to speak at all.
We pronounce it "België" 'cause we speak Dutch. Or La Belgique because we also speak French Or Belgien because we also speak German
The official language of people in Belgium is Dutch. People also speak the French and German languages throughout the country.
German is the least spoken official language in Belgium, spoken natively by less than 1% of the population. German is spoken in the east of Belgium.
Knobody knows the EXACT number/percentage of people who speak German. The number changes every minute! The numbers of people change so the number of people speaking German change too! If a person who speaks German passes away, then there is one LESS person speaking German. If someone learns German, then there is one MORE person speaking German!So there it is, there is NOT an exact number of people who speak German!From Aunt Sidney! x
Roughly 40-45% of people in Belgium speak French as their first language. This is primarily in the southern region of the country, known as Wallonia.
They also speak flemish. The country has been under various owners, French, German and Dutch I think. Some of the people are Flaamse and some Walloons.
French and German are both official languages in Switzerland (along with Italian), Belgium (along with Dutch) and Luxembourg (along with Luxembourgish). But in most countries in Western Europe, or the world for that matter, there are people who speak French and people who speak German (either in a large population or small).
Flemish is a variant of Dutch spoken in the northern region of Belgium known as Flanders. It is one of the three official languages of Belgium, along with French and German.
According to the last census in 2000, 63.6% of Swiss speak German.
People in Vienna speak Viennese German.