As of 2024, English was the foreign language that the greatest share of primary school students in EU countries were learning, with 82.5 percent of primary education students learning the language in that year. French was the second most learned foreign language by primary school students in 2024, with 4.4 percent of students, while German was learned by 4 percent of schoolchildren.
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