I've been trying to work out what to write about for a few days, and while I told Jenni I'd do something about fandom, I changed my mind at the last minute - sorry. (Fandom will come in due course).
I remember being confused when I was in French in year 7 as to why no-one in my class was finding the subject as interesting as I was, or at least as simple: there were at least four people other than me who had had three years' worth of French lessons beforehand!
And so that's what I'm writing about today - why so few people like learning languages. I was thinking about this because this week I've had to give GCSE options talks to the year nine students at my school studying 2 modern foreign languages - why it's good to carry on their second foreign language to GCSE level.