24/09/2009 (Agence Europe) - As the European Day of Languages -Saturday 26 September - approaches, Eurostat has revealed that in 2007, 60% of students in upper secondary education studied two or more foreign languages. One third studied one foreign language, and 6% did not study any foreign languages. Based on their self-assessment of linguistic skills, 28% of the EU population aged 25 to 64 in 2007 said they spoke two or more foreign languages and 36% one foreign language, while 36% said they could not speak any foreign languages. The EU Statistics Office said, too, that all students in upper secondary education study two or more foreign languages in the Czech Republic, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Finland, and that in two thirds of member states, English is the most widely spoken foreign language. (O.L./transl.rt)