File talk:Knowledge German EU map.png

In this map, Switzerland should be grey as it is not an EU member. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Opodo123 (talk • contribs) 15:04, 13 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

German is native to Luxembourg (Luxembourg is trilingual). Anorak2 (talk) 07:59, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Luxembourgish is not a real discrete language, but a dialect of the German language. In Luxembourg, the languages spoken in school are only the German and French standard languages. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.134.155.109 (talk) 14:48, 21 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Luxembourgish is considered a language due to its distinct orthography and its use in formal situations. But whatever the status of Luxembourgish, standard German is official language there regardless alongisde Luxembourgish. Anorak2 (talk) 14:45, 22 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Colours

Who the hell decided to use the same colour for this chart? Why not use different colours? Using shades of one colour makes it very difficult to read! 217.202.97.13 (talk) 21:40, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Switzerland is not in the EU. I would propose changing the name of the image rather than removing the information on Switzerland. Interestingly enough, Switzerland is not included in "Knowledge French EU map" nor "Knowledge English EU map". Other non-EU countries such as Norway are excluded in all of them. --Mr.Fantastique (talk) 09:45, 4 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Actually using the same shade makes it easier to read, if you have enough difference in the color. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ameki (talk • contribs) 15:36, 16 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with that Switzerland should be grey. The image have name "Knowledge German EU map.png" and in this way Switzerland is not member in EU.(I agree and with Mr.Fantastique) Николов (talk) 22:45, 29 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Iceland should be read. Appr 30% have basic knowledge in German, and appr 15-20% feel they can manage in German. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Eggertsae (talk • contribs) 17:25, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Red Slovenia

50%+ German speakers in Slovenia???! This is laughable, maybe Slovenians were only too shy to confess they don't speak any foreign language at this Eurobarometer poll...

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In Slovenia all neighbouring languages were teached at all schools. So it is no wonder that most oft the slovenian people speak another language. Dont mix this with native language speakers. There are under 1% native german speaker in slovenia.

all Austrians Native Speakers?

Not all Austrians speak German as a native language - contrary to what the map seems to suggest. In Southern Carinthia there are some regions, where the majority of people have Slovanianas their mother tongue, in Burgenland Hungarian and Croatian etc.. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nahabedere (talk • contribs) 19:42, 8 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The black colored area is displaying areas where german is the major language. That does not mean that 100% are native german speakers. There are no districts in Austria, Slovenian, Croatian or Hungarian is the major language.

-5% ?

What does -5% mean? Is that implying that there is some kind of racist legion in those countries or do they hate German or what? Does it mean as a second language? Please clarify what that means. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.49.87.226 (talk) 16:09, 31 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Simply put, -5% means 0% to 5%!

Scooter20 (talk) 19:56, 31 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

21 to 50% for Poland???

According to this map, from 21 to 50% of Poland's inhabitants speak (whatever this means) German. I live in Poland and this is absolutely not the case. I doubt very much this range could even be applied to English, the preferred foreign language in Polish schools by very far. What sources is this map based on? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.24.8.117 (talk) 09:28, 10 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]