Language-Learning In Schools.

Harsh exams 'are putting pupils off languages': Teachers warn so few are choosing the subject at A-level that it is becoming 'financially unviable' for some state schools to offer them. Mail.

This is not true - however much it might appear to be the case. The problem is that learning a modern language is very demanding, yes indeed, but it is the downgrading and simplifying of other subjects which has made Spanish or French appear more difficult than they actually are. The language to be learned has been made to stick out like a sore thumb.