Originally Posted by
inaspinorspiraldive
Food for thoughts: in Europe the first language spoken (native speakers) is german, second is french, english coming only third!
Actually the most spoken first language in Europe is Russian, about 132m in European Russia and native Russian speakers in Belarus and Ukraine (there are another 30m in Asian Russia), plus sizeable groups in Latvia, etc, whereas Germany, Austria, and the German-speaking part of Switzerland are about 95m total.