Immigrant Languages
Immigrant languages spoken by sizable communities of first and second-generation (dominant origin of the speakers in brackets):
- Turkish (southern Europe and Western Asia),
- Russian (eastern Europe and Northern Asia)
- Arabic (the West Asia and North Africa)
- Greek (southern Europe)
- Dutch (Western Europe and southern Africa)
- Igbo (Nigeria, West Africa)
- Italian (southern Europe)
- Polish (central Europe)
- Serbo-Croatian (Western Balkans, southern Europe)
- Spanish (southern Europe)
Most Germans also learn English as their first foreign language in school. Sometimes French or Latin are taught first, but usually English is, with French and Latin as common second or third foreign languages. Russian, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Dutch, classical Greek, and other languages are also offered in schools (often depending on the school's geographic location).
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