@The albatross:
Well, that's your opinion
At least there's a great beach (if you are in the right region...
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@leonie:
Well, in principle I agree with you. Being able to speak a foreign language is quite cool. But I don't think it's so cool how you learn it at school... many many boring lessons, learning more and more grammar instead of learning to speak it correctly... for example in French we had to learn all different types of times etc. - many of them are not even used or at least used correctly by the majority of the french people... and that's not real fun - there I prefer learning a foreign language e.g. with native films etc.