France's result is quite poor...is English not part of the school curriculum there?
I thankfully only experienced France's education system for one year (in grade 1, and not in France), but English second language education in the French system is total crap. There's also the big aspect of lingering French cultural imperialism and anti-English knee-jerk reactions eg. France is the greatest country and the only country that matters, and everybody else just wishes they were French. Although at the same time, a lot of French idiots (eg. Arnaud Montebourg) like to inject some misplaced and mispronounced English words in their speech to look 'hip'.
