<p>So, here's my dilema:</p>
<p>I took IB French during high school and feel like I'm fairly competent in it--I placed into third level French. For my major, Poli Sci or International Affairs (still undecided between the two but they're both in the same school), I need to get to level 3 or 4, respectively, for a single language. </p>
<p>I feel as though French is not really that useful of a language for international relations, or at least not nearly as useful as Chinese or Spanish, and I am thus thinking about taking Chinese. I know that Chinese is hard--my advisor says that everyone in the class either gets an A or a B or drops the course--but I feel like it would be worth it to have that skill, and I'm fairly confident in my abilities as a student (I did IB in high school). I guess my question is whether or not it would be worth starting a new language considering that I'm not a language major and that I would be taking a much more difficult class my very first semester in college and that having to take more language classes would a) make it seem as though I wasted my time/the credit I received for French (although it will count as an elective) and could make it harder to double major. Does anyone have any suggestions for specefic teachers in either subject (for those of you who go/went to UGA)? Thanks!</p>