Mono-lingual Canadian here with a question for both of you:<p>What do adolescents in your countries think of learning english?<p>Most anglophone Canadians start learning french in grade 4, unless their parents put them in an immersion program at a younger age.  In Ontario we were required to take French until grade 9 and after that the VAST majority of us stopped because we hated it.<p>Is it like that with English in other parts of the world?  Or is English enough of a prestige language (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prestige_%28sociolinguistics%29" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prestige_%28sociolinguistics%29</a>) that young people enjoy learning it?