Those who have never learnt another language most likely are terrible learners as it must be difficult for them.

The Eastern European has already learned 2 lanaguages by the time they reach secondary school. Mad isn't it.

It is not mad at all. You know my mother tongue is Hungarian and the official language here is Romanian. So in the first grade we had both Hungarian and Romanian classes. Then in the second grade we picked up French, then in the fifth grade we started to learn Russian. That is four languages at the age of 10. Is that mad? For us it was normal as that was a must. Then later I started learning English and Italian. Now I can speak 4 languages and when I am asked about it, people think I'm lying.

There is a saying in Hungarian, that you are as many persons as many languages you speak. This may sound stupid, but there's a lot of truth in it.