The Struggle to Speak English in Japan

In Japan, languages are very poorly taught. The only language that is available in secondary schools is English. There's a school in Tokyo which offers French and another school in Tokyo or so who offers German. So my first, and for a while, the main foreign language was, was French. By the way, I had learned classical Chinese before. That was really my first foreign language. But anyway, the among living languages, French was the first one.