“Now the fellows out there will have the right to say to you, ’How is it; you pretend to be Frenchmen, and you can neither speak nor write your own language? But you are not the worst, poor little Franz. We’ve all a great deal to reproach ourselves with.” 

i) Who is the speaker of the quoted lines? Whom does ‘fellows’ refer to here?
ii) Whom does the speaker blame for not showing due attention and care to the learning of French and why?