Foreign language class

[The Fifth Marauder]

Well, it's time to schedule for freshman year. I'm taking a foreign languge, but I'm having trouble deciding between Spanish and French. I had half of Spanish I in seventh grade, so Spanish will probably be the easiest. Still, I'm not sure if it's wise to take the "easy way out." We also have the choice of Latin or German, but I'd rather not take those.

My question is aimed toward those who are in or have graduated from high school in paticular: which language is the best to take? I want to take something practical, but also something that will impress colleges. Help?

EDIT: Just to clear things up, yup, I do live in the United States. Ohio.

Last edited by The Fifth Marauder on Mon Mar 14, 2005 11:56 pm, edited 1 time in total.

[Twinkle]

Well Spainish is more widely spoken. It's not the easy way out if you've got a head start.

[o_0]

Another good point to Spanish is if you get the basic vowel pronunciations down, you can say anything. xD

[shapu]

Spanish is a far better language to learn, especially in the US. It'll be more useful, and once you learn spanish, you can read Latin fairly well, because the words are more structurally similar to Latin than French, although only slightly. Plus, there're are none of those namby-pamby silent Zs.

[Igg]

Well Spainish is more widely spoken. It's not the easy way out if you've got a head start.

Depends wher eyou are Twinkly.

I'd say in the US Spanish is more useful, but in Europe you're better off with French.

Shapu...I do latin and can't really get my head around spanish *wibble*

[o_0]

Well Spainish is more widely spoken. It's not the easy way out if you've got a head start.

Depends wher eyou are Twinkly.

I'd say in the US Spanish is more useful, but in Europe you're better off with French.

Shapu...I do latin and can't really get my head around spanish *wibble*

That's a novel idea. Take Latin.

And the only thing I can remember after 5 years...

Mures tres
Mures tres
Caecae currunt
Caecae currunt
Sequentum sponsom agriculae
Ab ae absiscae aunt caudulae
Est premiul lithil stulitiae
Cuam mures tres

xD I got a lot of the spelling/words wrong. ._.

[Fiddelysquat]

I would take Spanish. Globally, it's far more popular.

[Matt]

As I presume you live in the US, or some really freaky school in the Ulk who decided to use the US grade system, I would take Spanish. As far as I know, which is probably wrong, but still, the majority of South America speaks Spanish, so that gives you a doorway. Of course, a lot of Canada speaks French. I only know the basics of Spanish, but I'd have to say that French is probably easier, because of its similarity to English, so then that gives you an incentive to take that. They're both useful languages, so I doubt there is any real bad points about either, so I'm just going to suggest Spanish, as that's the only one with any headway, having been studied for a bit already.

[JellyFish72]

Well Spainish is more widely spoken. It's not the easy way out if you've got a head start.

Depends wher eyou are Twinkly.

I'd say in the US Spanish is more useful, but in Europe you're better off with French.

Shapu...I do latin and can't really get my head around spanish *wibble*

That's a novel idea. Take Latin.

And the only thing I can remember after 5 years...

Mures tres
Mures tres
Caecae currunt
Caecae currunt
Sequentum sponsom agriculae
Ab ae absiscae aunt caudulae
Est premiul lithil stulitiae
Cuam mures tres

xD I got a lot of the spelling/words wrong. ._.

This shows how good of a student I am... I take Latin, and I don't know what that says!

EDIT: I'm such a dork... I forgot to give advice... Take Spanish, IMO, it's easy if you live in the US, because you pick it up... Plus, I can help!

[AFI_Sorrow]

I'm taking my third year of Spanish, and I would suggest it. I never took French, but Spanish seems to be more popular. And if you already took some of it, it will be more familiar. (That won't mean it won't be easier though, you'll get the hang of it more.) And definetley, there are a lot of languages that use the Spanish pronounciation.

Whichever you choose, goodluck to you!

[shapu]

As I presume you live in the US, or some really freaky school in the Ulk who decided to use the US grade system, I would take Spanish. As far as I know, which is probably wrong, but still, the majority of South America speaks Spanish, so that gives you a doorway. Of course, a lot of Canada speaks French. I only know the basics of Spanish, but I'd have to say that French is probably easier, because of its similarity to English, so then that gives you an incentive to take that. They're both useful languages, so I doubt there is any real bad points about either, so I'm just going to suggest Spanish, as that's the only one with any headway, having been studied for a bit already.

All of Central and South America speak Spanish, except for Brazil, which speaks Portuguese; Guyana, which speaks English; and French Guyana (which has its own seats in the French Senate and everything - it's considered an equal department, like Hawaii in the US), where they speak French.

Spanish has as many similar words to English as French does...they're called cognates. It also has a lot of false cognates (ladies, don't tell someone you're <i>embarassada</i>, because it don't mean embarrased - it means pregnant).

[Xil]

As I presume you live in the US, or some really freaky school in the Ulk who decided to use the US grade system, I would take Spanish. As far as I know, which is probably wrong, but still, the majority of South America speaks Spanish, so that gives you a doorway. Of course, a lot of Canada speaks French. I only know the basics of Spanish, but I'd have to say that French is probably easier, because of its similarity to English, so then that gives you an incentive to take that. They're both useful languages, so I doubt there is any real bad points about either, so I'm just going to suggest Spanish, as that's the only one with any headway, having been studied for a bit already.

All of Central and South America speak Spanish, except for Brazil, which speaks Portuguese; Guyana, which speaks English; and French Guyana (which has its own seats in the French Senate and everything - it's considered an equal department, like Hawaii in the US), where they speak French.

Spanish has as many similar words to English as French does...they're called cognates. It also has a lot of false cognates (ladies, don't tell someone you're <i>embarassada</i>, because it don't mean embarrased - it means pregnant).

The best part about learning French is the cognates, most words are similar to other languages. I worked my way through all my French classes relying on them.

I'd pick French, but it's only because after doing it for 11 years, it becomes the more appealing subject(and it's more Canadian, which is great).

What's pathetic is that I'm still generally terrible at it.

[Charisma]

I picked French mainly because well, I speak Spanish fluently already . I took three years of French but because I never practice it I've forgotten a lot of it. I think Spanish is better to know in the US, it's just used more and more in demand than French is right now. If you learn Spanish and later decide to learn French, it will probably make learning French much easier. French is a lot like Spanish, more than English in my opinion and knowing Spanish really helped me out when learning French.

[fzun]

Spanish has as many similar words to English as French does...they're called cognates. It also has a lot of false cognates (ladies, don't tell someone you're <i>embarassada</i>, because it don't mean embarrased - it means pregnant).

XDD My Spanish I teacher went on a trip to Spain with some of her friends who were also Spanish teachers and she made that mistake haha.

Spanish isn't a hard language at all. Lots of cognates and it's easy to pronounce the words once you get the vowel sounds down. And if you live in the US it should come in handy because there's so many Hispanics...

Although if you live in Europe I'd take French, because it would probably be more useful over there than Spanish. Honestly, I'd choose whichever would come in handy. I'm taking Spanish III as a freshman next year and it hasn't been that hard at all (except for a little grammar but that's about it).

[JellyFish72]

*cough**feels stupid*

I forgot to add that I took both (I know, Spanish, French, Latin, and wanting German... I'm such a nerd... How am I popular at school?!), and I think Spanish is not only easier, but more fun.