I passed all my exams at university. What shocked me was that I got a better grade in Swedish than in German, which is one of my main subjects. Actually, my German is awful – it adds up.

Incidentally here is a quote I just happened to find by chance online:

What attracts students to the study of a foreign language is not its appearance as an abstruse code saying the very same things that are said more simply in their mother tongue, but, rather, the opening up of a new world by the foreign language.

– Jackie-Ann Ross, “New Zealand’s Educational TV”

I don’t know who Jackie-Ann Ross is but I agree with her findings.