<p>Since I have to have 3 semesters of a foreign language.... I must pick which one I feel like taking, <em>gags</em></p>
<p>There is:
Spanish
French
Latin
German
Russian
Japanese
Chinese</p>
<p>I know for a fact that I do not want to endure one more Spanish class...I despise the language...I know squat after 3 years....3 years of my life wasted.</p>
<p>I hear French is decent....but I am kind of leaning toward Latin since I am majoring in Biology...</p>
<p>Does anyone have experience with a language other than Spanish? Or any suggestions? I want the easiest language, lol</p>
<p>I would call out Chinese as the most potentially useful after Spanish..but don't mind me i'm biased =)</p>
<p>From an american point of view though, chinese and japanese are pretty easy to learn, at least grammar-wise. Asian languages don't have tenses, conjugating, contractions etc. However, speaking is tough because there's a lot of inverted word order and intonation shifts.</p>
<p>If I were you I'd go talk to the biology department and ask them whether there is a language on the list that is spoken in a country where people are doing interesting research.</p>
<p>Latin is a dead language, and therefore not really spoken anymore (doesn't mean it isn't used of course) but it has a toooooon of tenses and shifts that modern romance languages don't have, making it alot harder to learn.
Personally, I'm minoring in French, but I know alot of people who had a hard time learning it after taking Spanish because of the differences in pronunciations (in spanish you pronounce almost everything, in french half the letters in a word are probably silent lol). Personally, I would recommend French (although I am biased towards it) because it is a very international language.</p>
<p>Russian is difficult (but certainly doable... if you have the passion to go through with learning a language, that is -- not if you're just taking three classes to fulfill a requirement), I found German easy (never took a college German class though, just learned it on my own, and am taking third year German here in the fall).</p>
<p>Take Latin. It is simply the most awesome language in the history of languages, with the possible exception of Greek. German is also fun and fairly easy, in my limited experience.</p>
<p>Take Latin! It does involve more memorization, but it will help you both with your English and with learning romance languages if you so choose later on. You'll also get a vocab boost, which will also help you when traveling. Even if you don't know the exact word that a native is saying, in, say, Europe, you might be able to figure out the gist.</p>
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Take Latin! It does involve more memorization, but it will help you both with your English and with learning romance languages if you so choose later on. You'll also get a vocab boost, which will also help you when traveling. Even if you don't know the exact word that a native is saying, in, say, Europe, you might be able to figure out the gist.
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<p>Hmm, picking up a new language in order to learn the language you actually want to be better at more thoroughly. Makes sense.</p>
<p>^^^ What in the world are you talking about...
Japan has the #2 economy in the world and is a superpower in all advancements.
Japanese is not an easy language to learn (Memorizing kanji, SOV sentence structure, etc...)
I have been studying Japanese on my own and find it very rewarding.
I wouldn't reccomend taking it for 1 semester. You won't benefit much from 1 semester.</p>
<p>I teach French and Spanish. I am sorry you don't like Spanish, but, hey, that's why they have menus in restaurants! French is pretty good, and similar to Spanish, so you might have a little help because of your Spanish, if you decide to do French. However, I would echo the recommendation to do Latin. First of all, it is very logical and sensible. Spanish comes from Latin, so you will not find Latin difficult. Latin is more complicated, grammar-wise, than Spanish, but it will make sense to you. Second, you mentioned that you want to major in Bio. There is a lot of Latin in Bio, and if you become a doc, there is a lot of Latin there too. I think Latin is the thing. It may be dead, but it is pretty cool.</p>