@persia
Just because Franko is banned doesn't mean there are no Scots left. I'll be as rebelious as I like thank you very much.

I find it intriguing that of that dirge you pick the only verse that has been deleted.
As for the topic. I was always lead to believe that English was easy to learn. So far as I can tell about 1/3 of it is French anyway.
I haven't studied any French for over 20 years, but oddly I am better now than I was then. I put this down to spending some time in a French speaking country and having an appreciation of French film.