language plays another important part in the multicultural aspect of britain. english is the main language for 92% of the uk (48.9m people) . less than 5% of the population aged 3 to 15 had a main language other than english in 2011. foreign languages are concentrated in london, where 21% of people don't speak english, or at least not well. these are the top 5 languages spoken at home other than english: polish, indian dialect, arabic, french, and all other chinese. however, in the uk, 1.6% of the british population doesn't speak english at all and not very well.