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Originally Posted by Sparrow
I admire and envy polyglots; but the education system in the UK doesn't do language learning very well imho.
They were undoubtedly the most tedious lessons of my school career; and I can only recall one student out of my entire year who did reasonably well at French and German.
I think ghastly school experiences put most people off learning a foreign language for the rest of their lives.
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i completely agree, a good teacher makes all the difference, and the biggest problem with language classes in schools is that most often you concentrate on grammar and vocabulary but very little on actually speaking and understanding it.