The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports's decision to incorporate compulsory lessons in a second foreign language in the curriculum documents, specifically in the General Education Programme for Basic Education, is a significant breakthrough in foreign language education. To some extent, it modifies the requirements not only on the organization and realization of language education at schools but on the pupils as well. As is always the case with innovations, this decision provokes a number of questions among the general public. The article answers some of them.