It's not Obama, despite the ignorant beliefs. Martin Van Buren's first language was Dutch.
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The official language of the United Kingdom is English. Other languages are spoken there including Welsh, Gaelic, and other European tongues.
About 500,000,000 people speak English as a first language, so that would be around 7% of all humans speak English as a first language. As any other language but first, it is estimated that 2,100,000,000 humans speak English, or about 30%.
It was quite common in those days for educated gentlemen to speak, or at least read, Latin and/or French and maybe even Greek. Not all of the Founding Fathers had these accomplishments but many did. Michael Montagne
While not perhaps the first language in many countries, English seems to have become the general language for communication between the peoples of this planet.
There are multiple countries in North America and thus multiple official languages. In Canada English is most popular but French is widely spoken, too. In the United States English is also most popular, but it's only inconvenient, not illegal, to speak other languages. In Mexico and Central America Spanish is by far most popular, if not the official language. Mexico, in fact, has more Spanish speakers than any other country in the world, including Spain itself.