"David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*)" wrote in message
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Mxsmanic wrote:

David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*) writes:

Extremely popular is meaningless. In the US, for example, which is the
most populous English speaking country in the world, high school
students are now learning Spanish at a rate almost 4 times that of
French. In the UK too, learning French as a second language is seen as
less important than it used to be.

Actually the most populous English speaking country is India.