To be fair though, English has sort of become 'the language' in the last few years.
It gets taught right the way across Europe, plus many other countries as well. It's became the language of business, the internet, etc.

For a British person there is therefore a) less incentive to learn a new language because many forrins speak a good level of English and b) it's hard to know what language to learn that will be of any use.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Wed 1 Jun 2011, 15:01, Reply)