Like it or not (and I like it!) there are fewer and fewer reasons for anyone to learn any language other than English, the language of science, commerce, global politics, aviation, popular music and, above all, the internet.
Certainly I can't see the reason all are forced to do a MFL at secondary school when many do not have the interest/inclination/aptitude. (Though one of my Christmas guests, who read Greats at Oxford speaks perfect Russian and Pashtun which is useful in his rather unusual occupation
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Ironically it's even become the default tongue of the EU; the language that President Hollande of France uses with Chancellor Merkel of Germany when plotting how to stitch up the British!