I can speak french pretty well. The thing with education of learning another language in this country is that kids start at 11 with one language and then in yr8 (12yrs) they are made to learn a second so they are learning 2 foreign languages at the same time but haven't really got the basic of the first sorted. I learnt French in Yr7 and then started Russian in Yr8 and I found this hard. I might go over my french again and take it further as it has been a few years since I left school.