Census data shows how Britain's cultural makeup has changed over a 10-year period as the prominence of certain languages shifts Polish remains the most commonly spoken language other than English and ...

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 ...

A 2023 YouGov poll found that only 21% of UK adults can hold a conversation in a language other than their mother tongue. About half of the other 79% regretted not engaging more with languages at ...

The most spoken language in the UK is English, but what comes next? The census from 2021 indicated that there’s another language which many people living in Wales and England speak, but it’s not one ...

The poll found that 68% of respondents agree that learning a second language other than English should be compulsory in secondary school, while 64% said the same for primary education. “Parents are ...

16:39, Sun, Sep 21, 2025 Updated: 16:45, Sun, Sep 21, 2025 The 2021 census revealed the five most commonly spoken foreign languages in England and Wales, and Spanish didn’t make the list. Over 91% of ...

The FINANCIAL — Language learning is facing a ‘difficult climate’ in schools as take up at GCSE and A-Level remain low, according to a new report from the CfBT Education Trust and the British Council.

English is no longer the first language for the majority of pupils in one in 15 councils. In 11 of England's 153 local educational authorities, children speak another language at home, such as Urdu, ...

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The 2021 census revealed the five most commonly spoken foreign languages in England and Wales, and Spanish didn't make the list. Over 91% of usual residents aged three years and over (52.6 million out ...

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