<p>How likely will being bilingual in English and French help me get jobs in my future? Will it even help at all? </p>
<p>I know Spanish right now is way more prevalent and useful to know in the United States, but I've already taken French for quite a while. It's quite disheartening to think about how much work I have put into learning French if I'm not going to even get to use it as an adult.</p>
<p>French is used as an international language much like English. It'll help you in that respect....I think? If you're talking about domestically, I think Spanish would be more useful. I'm taking French right now as well and although it's not my favorite subject, I'm gonna stick to it when I go to college. Then again, I'm also going to try to sneak in some Spanish classes as well.</p>
<p>I'm not going to lie, talking French will allow you to minor in French in college thus allowing you to study abroad in France. :)</p>
<p>So much better than Spain in my opinion...</p>
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<p>My parents made me take Spanish (I'm Hispanic, so it makes sense, right?), but I'm planning on taking this summer to learn French as well as possible. For my PhD (Math) I'm gonna have to learn French and Russian or German anyway, so better start ASAP, right?</p>
<p>Plus the language sounds cooler.</p>
<p>I'm going to be taking French next year [I'm currently a freshman in high school] and am going to try to test into French 2 since I have prior experience. I think it's a nice language, personally, and while it's not widespread in the US [the teacher's going to actually SEARCH for a placement test for me], it probably is in other countries in the world.</p>
<p>If you want to learn Spanish, go to a community college or get classes online or a cd or something. Learning a lot of languages [esp the main three imo] helps in the future.</p>
<p>I can tell u if u live in So Cal and everywhere on the south border it's better to Speak Spanish and English.</p>
<p>but if you head up more north it's logical to learn French and English thanks to Canada</p>
<p>better yet, learn all 3 languages.</p>
<p>French is very important, not only do you learn a new language, but you also improve your english (which will always be handy!). Furthermore, French a primary language in the UN, so if you plan on getting a job there, french will be very useful. In addition to everything else, jobs look for ppl who are insight of their surroundings and who a different perspective of the world. My personal opinion is that we americans should adopt language systems similar to those of european nations and have our students learning new languages from an early age.</p>
<p>French is dandy. One word: Canada.</p>
<p>vive la France!! ^^ i agree a million times!! i am french!! ;)</p>
<p>one word: France! :)</p>
<p>I'm not going to lie, Spanish teachers suck at my school. They have no idea what they are doing.</p>
<p>If knowing French is useful for a job in the UN, that sounds great because that is the sort of job I'd like.
How about for other jobs having to do with international relations/economics? Can French be more useful than Spanish for those sorts of jobs?</p>
<p>Yes, it is - and French is more useful internationally and for like, business, and more official, strange stuff (science/math more, methinks).</p>
<p>Spanish is also useful, but everyone at my school takes that so I just went with French.</p>
<p>trust me, more jobs will want you to speak french; however, knowing both spanish and french (of course along with english) will go a long way, seeing that most of the world speaks spanish (second most spoken language). I would try to learn both if i were you ( i know both and i just feel happy being able to talk to other ppl around the world). And if you havent noticed, american passports are (were?) in both french and english.</p>
<p>^ I'm trilingual now but I would love to learn French.</p>
<p>I know Spanish, English and some basic hebrew.</p>