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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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Modern "adult education" languages classes are
completely different to the way that languages were taught in British schools 30 years ago, thankfully! These days, language learning is all learning through speaking, not "rote learning" of grammar. I'd encourage anyone to "have a go".