Languages are flippin hard! Not only do you have to endure the torture of speaking exams :O but you also have to know sooooooooooooooo much about the country/ies that speak that language, hence including loads of history, politics etc, you have to learn loads of grammar, words that you've never even heard of in english let alone the foreign language, and you're expected to read around the subject loads.
Plus the people who do them tend to be either fluent or really clever so the grade boundries are higher.
(To that person earlier: yeah i do french, german and english combined, i just don't understand why people go ewwwwwwwwwwww, i mean what's with the whole bio, chem, phys, maths and further maths thing - nightmare!!!)
But yeah, languages are the best anyway :P