Language dropouts

A "dropout" is a student who withdraws from a course of instruction before completing it.
The word "dropout" has very negative connotations in English. A "High School dropout" is someone who never finished and left High School without a Diploma. A person like that is looked down upon by society as a slacker, a loafer, an idler, a good-for-nothing... a "dropout" in short.
There are plenty of "language dropouts": those who start learning a language and somewhere along the road they give up, they surrender and capitulate. The effort is beyond their powers, both intellectual and physical. They finally admit that they are inferior to others, to those who have the strength of character to continue and master the second language as a matter of principle.
Do not be a dropout!  Be bilingual!