Which foreign languages (apart from English) are most popular in your country? (primary school, to live)

[JedlaRoche]

The OP question is which language is the most studied in your country apart from English. Not most spoken by immigrant communities.

[ABQConvict]

Originally Posted by bristol20

In England apart from the English the most widely used languages are...

1. Polish - 546,000
2. Punjabi - 273,000
3. Urdu - 269,000
4. Bengali - 221,000
5. Gujurati - 213,000
6. Arabic - 159,000
7. French - 147,000
8. Chinese (excluding Mandarin and Cantonese) - 141,000
9. Portugese - 133,000
10. Spanish - 120,000
11. Tamil - 101,000
12. Turkish - 99,000
13. Italian - 92,000
14. Somali - 86,000
15. Lithuanian - 85,000
16. German - 77,000
17. Persian - 76,000
18. Filipino - 70,000
19. Romanian - 68,000

Wow. Your schools have a very comprehensive foreign language curriculum.

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by UrbanLuis

Those are both the offical languages of Canada, not foriegn. I think the most widely spoken foreign languages here are South Asian languages, Chinese and Arabic. Spanish is not as widely spoken as it in in the U.S but it is a pretty popular language for people to try and learn.

It's say for non-hispanophones in Canada, Spanish is by far the most common ''third language" (after the other official language that is not theirs) for people to learn.

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by ABQConvict

Wow. Your schools have a very comprehensive foreign language curriculum.

Funny guy!

[EduardoFinatto]

Pomeranian, italian, german, spanish.

[Cliksder]

Spanish, French, Latin, Italian

[Muscovite]

German
French

[Muscovite]

Black and Hispanic kids: Spanish

So, Afro-Americans have special preference for Spanish? Interesting...

[tvdxer]

1) French
2) German
3) Italian
4) Russian
5) Chinese

[intelfan11315]

Spanish and French in the United States