My Mom made me take a foreign language as well. Our discussion went something like this:
Mom: I'm signing you up for Spanish III.
Me: ... I haven't taken Spanish I or II.
Mom: ... You haven't? Well, you'll figure it out. You're pretty smart, right?
Me:
And yet, I am getting the highest grade in the class. Which is really odd, because about half of my classmates speak Spanish fluently.