<p>Rayandoelsol,</p>
<pre><code>I nearly died laughing from your comment below. Good luck to you!
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<p>"Most Spanish-speaking people I see are either gardening or taking my order at McDonald's"</p>
<p>Keep in mind that according to his other posts on this site, JohnathanK is a 13-year old middle-schooler. What biased thinking for somehow so young!</p>
<p>I was basing my information on past experiences.</p>
<p>I still stand by my statement that I see more Mexicans in the labor force than in the corporate world. </p>
<p>I did not say all Mexicans are bad.</p>
<p>I did not say they are all stupid.</p>
<p>Don't put words in my mouth.</p>
<p>Spanish speakers are not all mexicans. <em>rolls eyes</em></p>
<p>Have y'all considered Spain? Yes, their economy is not that strong, however it is steady. Much trade occurs in the area, as well.</p>
<p>I didn't say they were, rayandoelsol. I said MEXICANS in that post. Not all Spanish-speaking people.</p>
<p>Spain's awesome. Aren't they the only industrialized Spanish-speaking country?</p>
<p>Spanish is my first language, so why would I want to learn it at school, I already have a pretty good basis of it, and i speak it every day at home, so I took french because it's different, i'm going through hell with it right now, but i feel better learning something outside my element</p>
<p>^
We're in the same scenario buddy.</p>
<p>I did not want to take spanish in school because I knew that I would own that class and be bored out of mind. I picked french because I knew I would be challenged and suffer the torment brought on by this nasally but yet sexy language. Quite frankly being a spanish speaker has helped me tremendously in french when it comes to dealing with the imperfect, past tense, subjunctive and etc. I find french useful when I'm at a restaurant or giving a report on an influential somebody of french descent. I don't have to worry about botching the name of a person or place when pronunciating it. French class rules! =D</p>
<p>Argentina and Chile will be there soon, but I say Spanish is more important because of the large influx of immigrants into the US; the Hispanics are everywhere, and they grow at a very quick rate, so they will grow in economic importance within the next 15 years.
French, on the other hand, is useful only in Europe (there is virtually no industrial development in Africa), and if their economy keeps going the way it is the importance of the French language will begin to diminish. The cultural ineptitude and lack of change for immigrant status will not help.
And if one speaks Spanish, one (if possible) should sign up for a non-Romance language in order to acquire facility in an unrelated language; the best choices here are Chinese, Arabic, Hindi, Russian, or Japanese.</p>
<p>I have heard that Chinese will also be a mandatory language for the Us for future years. While Communist in its ideology, China's economy is growing by leaps and bounds. In fact, economists believe that China will rival the economy of the US in roughly ten years and perhaps will supersede ours. That is a staggering fact, indeed. </p>
<p>I am taking spanish, however.</p>
<p>If I were to learn a third language, however, I would probably choose Chinese or Russian.</p>
<p>Hopefully I'll be dead before the Chinese take over.</p>
<p>I think the mullahs are prolly gonna take over before the Chinese.</p>
<p>Jonathan, you are in grade 7. You will definitely be around, barring a car accident or involvement in crime or drugs, in 2050. The Chinese seem to be ignoring the credit system, and their banks stink, so I will wait and see whether they reform or become a bubble economy that ends up bursting in the 2020s.</p>
<p>French if one of the official working languages of the UN (one of two, I think).</p>
<p>Spanish is not.</p>
<p>What section of the world controls the UN? And there are six working languages of the UN, not two: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.</p>
<p>Where I live, Spanish and French are equally important since there are many people from countries in Central and South America and Haiti respectively. I'm in French III and I love the language. Still, I'm thinking about taking Spanish in my junior year.</p>
<p>What about learning Arabic for the business world?</p>
<p>And shame on all the people who're stereotyping the Hispanic. :/</p>
<p>Learn Arabic if you are interested in specific government jobs. For example, Arabic is very valuable for some CIA jobs. Otherwise, Spanish is the most useful in the United States. Spanish gets a huge priority. Whenever you open a phonebook or see advertisements on TV for lawyers or whatever, you hear "Se habla espanol", not "je parle francais".</p>
<p>If you look on the UN website it says that they want people who are fleunt in French or English.
I've found my german to be very useful ( I've been taking it 8 years ) and I have found people from California to here in Georgia and all over the UK who speak it. Here in Georgia, the majority of the hispanics are unskilled laborers and spanish is useful. French would be good.
You should take mroe than one if you interested in the language. I take two and I want to take more.</p>
<p>For those who plan to move abroad or have some interaction with foreign countries, I'd recommend Mandarin ( Chinese ) , Hindi or Arabic!</p>
<p>"It depends where you live. If you live in Canada, obviously you would take French. In the U.S. - Spanish."</p>
<p>I was under the impression that most people from Canada already knew French...at least when I went to Montreal last year most people did (A homeless person asked me for money in French and I looked at him weird. Then he said 'Ah, English', and then asked me for money in English)
Of course I could be wrong. :P</p>