<p>If you were to choose one, which would it be? </p>
<p>I don't know which to choose. I'm going to take Latin with one of them so would it be better for Classical and a Romantic Language? or a 2 Classical Langauges.</p>
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<p>Spanish. It'll make your life a lot easier. Plus, you'll have more use of it.</p>
<p>From what I've heard, colleges love prospective classics majors. Not many students take classical languages in high school, so often adcoms will take into consideration that you're filling a need. Not to mention some schools give scholarships for those interested in majoring in the classics. So, if you write that down in your application, you are at an advantage. Also, the classics are intellectually engaging, if that's your thing. But, people do say they can be boring as hell.</p>
<p>As for as Spanish, it is reasonably easy language to learn and practical.</p>
<p>I personally hate Spanish so I'd choose Greek.</p>
<p>Um Greek?</p>
<p>It'd help me with my math ^_^</p>
<p>Spanish is just useless.</p>
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Spanish is just useless.
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Now that's just ignorant. Spanish and English are the second and third most commonly spoken languages in the world.</p>
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<p>Actually no. Most commonly spoken language in the world is Chinese :) Second is Hindi.</p>
<p>I bet a lot of those people in China and India don't even know how to properly speak their own language. Personally, I would choose Spanish over Greek, I mean the only time you're actually going to speak Greek is in Greece and Spanish is much more commonly used in America.</p>
<p>Mr. Chipset, my mistake. -_-; My boyfriend is going to kill me over this one.</p>
<p>Cosine, of course we don't. If you have any idea of the number of dialects, accents, and completely different languages spoken in those two countries, you wouldn't expect us to.</p>
<p>However, my point still stands that Spanish is not useless.</p>
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I bet a lot of those people in China and India don't even know how to properly speak their own language.
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Very interesting assumption, alas! without arguments; so we can't consider this in discussion :( Too bad.</p>
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Personally, I would choose Spanish over Greek, I mean the only time you're actually going to speak Greek is in Greece and Spanish is much more commonly used in America.
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I'd say, choose language based on whether you like it or not. Learning language is difficult task and if you don't like it it's going to be bitter.</p>
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<p>Actually, despite India's and China's increasing power in the global economy and hence the spread of their languages, hindi and chinese are for the most part restricted to those countries. Spanish is spoken as an official language in 3 continents, and thus spoken more WIDELY around the world.....you cant call Spanish useless unless you're a brain dead idiot like kkk-theory.</p>
<p>By the way, I'm not a native speaker of Spanish, and I have not a single ounce of Hispanic blood within me. The language is just too damn useful to ignore.</p>
<p>Brain dead idiot? Excuse me?</p>
<p>First off, chances are I'm probably much smarter than you are based solely on your ridiculous ad hominem. Second, you're the "brain dead idiot" for taking a statement like that seriously.</p>
<p>And no, spanish is not too damn useful to ignore. I don't find myself using it all, and I've gone through four years of it. Honestly, who am I going to talk to in spanish that I can't just talk to in english? Most people who I am in contact with who do speak spanish are bilingual anyway. </p>
<p>On a global scale, no **** spanish isn't useless because people speak it everywhere. But as far as I am concerned, it hasn't payed off for the amount of time I spent studying it, and I'm certain that many people at my school and perhaps here would agree.</p>
<p>Would you say the same thing about the uses of Greek if you had studied that?</p>
<p>I'm sure that there is a greater percentage of people who are bilingual in both Greek and English than the pecentage of people who are bilingual in Spanish and English.</p>
<p>Just because you haven't used a language doesn't make it any less useful.
I speak fluent Mandarin, yet everyone I've met in the United States who spoke Mandarin could also speak English. However, to make their lives easier, we communicate in Mandarin even though there was no need to do so.</p>
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<p>Sure I would, because many words in the english language have greek and latin roots. And greek symbols are used in math. obviously.</p>
<p>you see, unlike you, I wouldn't consider myself fluent in spanish like you are in mandarin; i didn't grow up with the language. high school spanish teaches you to take tests, not to carry out conversations efficiently on a day to day basis. i mean sure, i could speak spanish to the few native spanish speakers i come in contact with, but they're pretty good at speaking english and im pretty bad at spanish so it's just more efficient if we talk in english.</p>
<p>YOU'RE BACK! lol</p>
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Actually no. Most commonly spoken language in the world is Chinese Second is Hindi.
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<p>But, not the most widely spoken ;) (as in across the globe). They're too contained.</p>
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<p>ROFL so you're using insults on the internet to boost your own ego? Eh, whatever floats your boat...</p>
<p>ROFL look who's being the pretentious psuedointellectual. You're saying that I'm trying to boost my own ego? You're the one who thinks he has made a clever observation when, in actuality, you've just stated the obvious.</p>
<p>You're the one who started this ****. Let's examine the evidence.</p>
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<p>You set yourself up for the insults, dip*<strong><em>. You could have just left it at "Thus, from these observations, you can't call spanish useless" and people might actually have taken you seriously. But no, you proceed to be an ignorant </em></strong> and use an ever-so-clever ad hominem to question my intelligence.</p>
<p>But I'm going to proceed to counter your point anyway, thus proving that you are wrong on both accounts. You say that Spanish is the most widely spoken language in the world? Sure it is, but look at the countries who are speaking it: Mexico, Guatamala, Nicaragua, Uruguay, Paraguay, Panama, Guinea, to name a few. I sure see myself visiting much less doing business with any of these. </p>
<p>To imply that spanish is useful to ANYONE simply because spanish is the official language of a large cluster of third world nations which constitutes the bulk of spanish speaking natives is ridiculous. A vast majority of Americans will never set foot in any of these places, thus nullifying your argument.</p>
<p>I wouldn't be taking Modern Greek. Ancient Greek as in Homeric Greek and all those great peices of literature. Do you think they'll have a AP Greek anytime soon? I can't beleive they put Japanese and Chinese ahead of the Greek AP exam.</p>
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I can't beleive they put Japanese and Chinese ahead of the Greek AP exam.
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<p>I can .</p>
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