LONDON (AP) — Polish is England’s second language, according to statistics published Wednesday, a dramatic illustration of the wave of immigration that has brought nearly 1 million Eastern Europeans ...

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English is the most spoken language in the world in 2024, with more than 1.5 billion speakers around the globe. It belongs to the West Germanic language of the Indo-European languages and originates ...

The decline of languages education in England is a familiar and depressing story. Take-up of French at GCSE is down from 25% in 2009-10 to 18% in 2024-25. German has halved in the same period from 10% ...