when i went to school they didn't teach English but French yet i and most people failed to learn French and were better at English because there weren't a lot of reasons to learn French. the teachers didn't believe in things like immersion they just made you repeat grammar drills over and over . in retrospect i could have watched tv and youtube came out when i was in high school so that would have helped. but before that time it was going to be harder to find good stuff in other languages .
when i went to school they didn't teach English but French yet i and most people failed to learn French and were better at English because there weren't a lot of reasons to learn French. the teachers didn't believe in things like immersion they just made you repeat grammar drills over and over . in retrospect i could have watched tv and youtube came out when i was in high school so that would have helped. but before that time it was going to be harder to find good stuff in other languages .