Magpieme (UK)
I started learning French when I was five. It wasn't mandatory, so when I moved school at age eight, the new school had to assume no one knew French and started from scratch.
If learning any specific language was mandatory from an early age, kids would be fluent by 16. It's not, so we're not.
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