I'm Romanian, and the scholar system is similar with the one in Poland. My first contact with English was during kindergarden, then from second grade till college.
Nowadays is pretty much impossible to get a decent job without English and preferably a second language, especially French and German.

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I'm from the US and only know English but i'm taking Chinese right now. My best friend is Chinese and it's really fun to study with her

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I don't know of the popularity thing, cause i'm not active in socializing with other manga fans from Finland. Thought i can say, that i haven't ever pumped to finnish manga site.

And on personal thought, i rather read my mangas, anime subs and manga sites in english, than in finnish.
I don't know why, but somehow it's more fun to read them in english.

In the UK students don't normally start learning a second language until secondary school year 7 (age 11-12) but now its been introduced a bit earlier in the final year of primary school year 6. French, German and Spanish are the 3 languages taught.

I started learning French in when I started secondary school and only did it for the 3 compulsory years because I just couldn't understand it. (I blame it on me being Dyslexic)

Canadian here and only know English. In the area I live in, French isn't introduced until the 4th grade (ages 9-10) and you're allowed to stop after the 7th grade (ages 13-14). When I was in school then, French was only once or twice a week so they weren't very intent on making us fluent in it. Only 2 provinces in Canada make it compulsory to know French as far as I know.

I speak English and Spanish.

my native language is Arabic and i started learning English since i was still in Iraq in 3rd grade. they taught us the "british" english pronunciation though. i moved to US when i was in 6th grade so it was easy for me to live here since i was familiar with the language.

I speak English, currently learning French

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My native language is Indonesian (Bahasa), English are taught in my country since preschool and they teach mandarin at primary school (really depends on the region you're at).

I currently studying Italian and Japanese, but since it seems like I wouldn't use Italian at all, I'm considering to re-learn mandarin instead.

American English. Though I studied French for 6 years in school.

It wasn't until I started learning French that I pitied anyone learning English as a second language. We have the MOST words and it feels like there are more exceptions than rules to our language. Not to mention all the slang/colloquialisms that are probably never taught in school. Even if you master reading and writing English, we never speak it in quite the same way...... Seriously, hats off, guys. Can't imagine how difficult it was.

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I've spoken English (New Zealand English) and Catalan ever since I was a kid. I learnt Spanish when I moved to Spain, when I was 8. Later on in high school I studied French (enough to communicate to somebody) and now I'm studying Japanese. I want to go back to New Zealand when I'm older and learn Maori.

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my native language is arabic and i speak English and French

I wonder what people think is the hardest language to learn. I guess it depends on what your native language is. I'm currently teaching English in China. Mandarin is often considered the hardest language for English speakers to learn. But when I asked some of my older students what they thought was the hardest language to learn, most said Spanish. A few said Arabic. Nobody said English though.

Yes, it really depends. Spanish is quite easy for me, since Portuguese and Spanish have a lot in common... I think German is really hard (though I never tried really hard to learn - some people say Japanese is hard, but once you understand it, it's quite easy), because it's hard for me to read and understand when someone talks in German.

As far as which language is most difficult to learn, it probably depends on whether you're talking about spoken, written, or both. Spoken Japanese is much easier than written because of those darn kanji, for example...

English is so irregular - spelling, grammar, pronunciation, etc. - that it must be a nightmare to learn as a second language. I didn't realize how weird English is until helping my kids learn to read & do their early-grade homework.

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"[English] not only borrows words from other languages; it has on occasion chased other languages down dark alley-ways, clubbed them unconscious and rifled their pockets for new vocabulary."
-James Nicoll, can.general, March 21, 1992