My secondary school (or high school for you Americans) specialised in languages, so we were all forced to learn at least one language. We couldn't even choose, they pre-selected either French or German depending on which group you enrolled in. I, unfortunately, got French. It was pretty hard, but it was even worse when it was a language I wasn't interested in.
They taught Spanish as well, but that was only a choice subject for the last two years of secondary, which I didn't choose. My bright idea was to choose Statistics instead, thinking it was easy... worst mistake I made in secondary.