i was asked if i would like to do german at school and i said "no chance, when am i ever going to need german ?" 3 years later when i'd joined the army and was posted to northern germany ( soltau) i thought mmmmm not one of my better decisions
That sounds about right for life to be fair! I didn’t get the choice of languages as the deputy head at the time was very strong on everything German. I think when year 10 arrived I had to option to switch to Spanish but after 3 years of German, I stuck with it.