This map shows the second most common first language in (nearly) every country in the world. These are people who speak it as a first language, we decided this was a more revealing metric as it illuminates the ancient furrows of conquest, colonisation and recent immigration trends (see Polish in the United Kingdom or Spanish in the United States). English takes the crown as the most common second
![Map of Second Languages around the World | MoveHub](https://cdn-ak-scissors.b.st-hatena.com/image/square/f3fd9901741321b57ecb77d7299ad313d107aaf8/height=288;version=1;width=512/https%3A%2F%2Fimages.movehub.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2014%2F09%2Fsecond-languages-around-the-world.jpeg)