Why are British people such nervous linguists? Shame | Adrian Chiles

I have failed at French, German, Croatian – and now I’m learning Welsh

‘No other subject,” says my language teacher, “is the cause of so much shame. You might struggle with other subjects, but you’ll probably never berate yourself like you do about your shortcomings in language learning.”

That’s a good point or, as they say in Welsh, mae e’n gwneud pwynt da.