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Personally, I think that any language but Spanish is good. Spanish, IMO, is what we call a "bobo class". I take French though. =D

Profanity 101. :)

Dude, Español is awesome. Though it's vocabulary might be much easier for a native English speaker than French, it's grammar gets freaking hard. Don't underestimate the language. I chose Latin though, and would've chosen Classical Greek if you had it up there. You had a surprisingly limited number of languages to chose from...no Japanese, Chinese (it was taught at my previous high school), Russian, and many others that some schools may offer.

Latin

Spanish is far from English. German and French are closer.

I put up what I know is what most schools offer. Except the middle school here does not offer Latin. I wanted to switch to it, but my mom said to stay with French.

Spanish is probably actually your most useful choice because you're more likely to actually use it at some point, although I chose German just because I like it better :)

Latin is useful if you want a better working knowledge of what a lot of current languages are based off of.

Really though, any language is a good choice. I wish I studied more in my Spanish and Latin classes in high school.

I was limited to Spanish, French, and Latin in high school and chose Spanish, taking four years of it and can speak it fairly well. I took a year of college Japanese, which is fairly easy to start out but gets a hell of a lot harder when all the complicated rules about verbs and adjectives and different tenses are brought in. Plus it has three writing systems, and while Hiragana and Katakana are easy as cake, Kanji is a mother.

Unless you plan on going to McDonald's a lot, I don't see any reason to learn Spanish. All the rich European countries speak German, French, or Dutch.

Unless you plan on going to McDonald's a lot, I don't see any reason to learn Spanish. All the rich European countries speak German, French, or Dutch.
But what if you live in America?

Unless you plan on going to McDonald's a lot, I don't see any reason to learn Spanish. All the rich European countries speak German, French, or Dutch.
Sorry, I assumed you were American. I guess the old saying holds true every once in a while... :eek:

French is most useful for buisness in europe and many other places.

For actually being useful, I'd say Spanish, at least if you live in the US, since I meet a lot more Spanish-speakers than any other language.

I voted Latin, because I love Latin, but it wouldn't help you much if you mean to communicate with people.

My favorite languages are Icelandic and Finnish, I know a bit of Finnish, and I'm trying to find someplace where I can learn Icelandic, maybe a college summer course if I can find one. I know there's a good language college in my area...
They should teach Finnish in school, I would have been there.

It just depends on what you want to do.

Living on the west coast, there are a lot of Asian languages, Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, Vietnamese, all could help you in the future.

Spanish is also a huge language living in California. And as a teacher knowing different languages can smooth your classroom over considerably.

I personally took Spanish. I liked it a lot and found the grammar fun.

Le français, c'est ce qui a de mieux, voyons!

Definitely depends your purpose:

To do micro-scale business in the U.S., learn Spanish.
To do macro-scale business internationally, learn German.
To woo the ladies, learn French.
To get on God's good side, learn Latin.

personlay i would say all language are important, if i could take any language though it would be mandiran

I have plans to learn nearly 2 dozen languages in my life. I'm learning Dutch on this website and I plan to start Russian sometime next year.

I'm New Jerseyan. ;)

It just depends on what you want to do.

Living on the west coast, there are a lot of Asian languages, Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, Vietnamese, all could help you in the future.

Spanish is also a huge language living in California. And as a teacher knowing different languages can smooth your classroom over considerably.

I personally took Spanish. I liked it a lot and found the grammar fun.

Yeah, I agree. I'm currently taking Spanish because I think it will serve me well in the future. And I also think it is easy compared to the other languages offered (French, German, Tagalog)

If you can speak French and English there are not many places in the world you won't be able to make your self understood.