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Parts of Switzerland speaks German, but it's such a different dialect that you'd have a hard time understanding it even if you spoke German fluently. I knew a Swiss and when I heard him speak to his family on the phone, I couldn't understand a word. Someone said it sounded like talking backwards. I believe German used to be spoken in Sudetenland in Czecheslovakia, but then the war happened so I'm not sure they still do. I think German also used to be spoken in the Tyrol region of northern Italy. I think the Alsace language bordering France is similar to German. I've even heard that there were pockets of German speakers in Russia. Yiddish seems pretty similar to German too.