@hazelnot @quixoticgeek @girlonthenet
Btw, it might shock some of the native English speaking readers that at high school I was taught 4 different foreign languages.
I dropped out of Latin after a year because it broke my brain.
I dropped out of French after two years because the Latin took French down with it.
I dropped out of German after two years because the teacher told me that since I already spoke German fluently, there wasn't anything useful he could teach me.
So that left just English.

@hazelnot @quixoticgeek @girlonthenet
I'm not sure that is entirely accurate. Sure, British and American cultural colonization means English is for many a pragmatic choice as a foreign language, but I think in many environments other languages have historically been the first choice as a second language: Russian, Chinese, German, French, Spanish, Arabic, ..., making English the third or fourth language to learn.
For me, English was the third language.