In france, most of peoples says german is an agressive and "brutal" language, and a lot of these who try to learn it in school are disgusted by the difficulties like declination and structure of sentence. (mostly because of the bad method of teachers i think..)
Personnaly, i f
***ing love germanics accents like german, dutch and danish, question of taste..maybe it's because i was disgusted by spanish (i hate spanish rrrrr

) when i was at school. (hate spanish and like german is not very common in south west of france)
That's why i try to learn german when i have enough time and even if i dont understand it yet (exept if you repeat "ich bin susan und ich esse sauerkrout, hmmm ! ich liebe sauerkrout mit blumen !" ) , i love the idea of ..errr..guest, it could be very interesting
ps : i wonder to know if the germans (or other country why not) love more or less french language or if it's the same problem ?..because if you ask someone in france to speak german, more of 50% will answer you "ein zwei ein zwei HALT ! papir schnell !" or something like that
