Spoken by over 120 million people, about 80 million in Germany and the rest scattered throughout Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Poland, Russia (and in tiny quantities, former German colonies Burundi and Ruanda, Africa).  The German Umlaut (dots placed over vowels a, o and u) is a critical element; they and their capitalized equivalents are shortened forms for sounds ae, oe and ue respectively.
German Greetings
Yes	Ja	yah
No	Nein	nine
Good Morning	Guten Morgen	goot-en morgan
Hello/Good Afternoon	Guten Tag	goot-en tahg
Good Evening	Guten Abend	goot-en ah-bn
Goodbye	Auf Wiedersehen	Ow  vee-deh-zane
Please	Bitte	bitt-uh
Thank You	Danke	dahnk-uh
Small Talk
How are you?	Wie geht's?	vee gates
Good	Gut	goot
Bad	Schlecht	sh-lek
So-So	Es geht	ehs-gate
What's Your Name?	Wie heiBen Sie?	vee eye-zen zeh
Nice to meet you	Sehr erfreut	zehr ehr-froitt
Hockey Talk
Hockey	Eishockey	ice-hockey
Puck	die scheibe	dee sh-eye-beh
Goal!	Tor	tohr
Forward	Sturm	sh-toorm
Defenseman	Verteidiger	vehr-tye-diger
Goaltender	der Torwart	tohr-wahrt