Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1915529-20140702204420/@comment-1496755-20140824124803

Yeah - I was at one of our "foreign language high schools", which are considered to be the most intellectual of all school types. So the people there are a bit more mature and accepting of werdness than others. Besides, most of them are weird in their own way as well... It was the kingdom of geeks, nerds and know-it-alls :P

And when I say foreign language school, I mean that we spent the entire first year studying only English - 8 hours a day, with constant exams, tons of new stuff to learn every week. It's a harsh regimen, but in the end you become very fluent and skilled. And then you continue building it up throughout the next 4 years.

You also start learning a "secondary" language in your second year - in my case, German. But you can never learn it even remotely as good as your primary language, unless you take a lot of private lessons (too much of a hassle for me).