From my experience there, they seem pretty serious about language learning. There was a university focused on language learning that had brought in a lot of native-speakers as teachers for all kinds of languages, and I met a lot of adults that did after-work programs to learn different languages as well. Russian and Chinese seemed to be the most popular, unsurprisingly.
Their english level is really good for 16 year olds!
From my experience there, they seem pretty serious about language learning. There was a university focused on language learning that had brought in a lot of native-speakers as teachers for all kinds of languages, and I met a lot of adults that did after-work programs to learn different languages as well. Russian and Chinese seemed to be the most popular, unsurprisingly.
I am not surprised they start much younger.