A graduation requirement my school places is 3 years of a foreign language. So yeah, I have attempted to learn a new language, namely Spanish. My opinion of it? I can see why one would wanna take a new language, but I feel it shouldn't be forced upon him/her. I started of struggling, and nearly failed, too. But ever since then, I've managed to pull my act together and get an 85 in the class. Did I learn Spanish? Yup, I actually did. Was it useful? For the longest time, I didn't think so, but then about a week ago, during work, some dude needed a Spanish translator on the fly, and he asked me. Wouldn't you know it, I was actually able to help. Still, I wouldn't go out of my way to learn a new language. And I took Spanish, which a lot of people I know consider an easy language. I don't think I could ever learn Japanese, definitely not on my own. My friend took Japanese, and looking at her work, it seems really hard. All those Kanji look the same to me...
On the bright side, it's only 3 years, and my third ended in June. So I'm officially language free now!