Well, 10 days without sleep and death ensues.... If you are familiar with the hit TV show House, M.D. you will recognize that in the dialogue above I borrowed heavily from an episode about a patient with potentially fatal insomnia.
Languages of Berlin. German is the official language in Berlin. English is also widely spoken in Germany, especially in the tourist areas. Check out more Travel Tips Â».
) is a West Germanic language that derives most of its vocabulary from the Germanic branch of the Indo-European language family. A proportion of German words are derived from Latin and Greek, and fewer are borrowed from French and English.Languages which are most similar to German include Afrikaans, Dutch, English, the Frisian languages, the continental Scandinavian languages and Luxembourgish.he area in central Europe where the majority of the population speaks German as a first language and has German as a (co-)official language is called the  German Sprachraum . It comprises an estimated 88 million native speakers and 10 million who speak German as a second language (e.g. immigrants).