<p>Which is why I'm unhappy. I wanted to study French but I didn't sign up for it.</p>
<p>DUMBDUMBDUMB. </p>
<p>Someone convince me that Spanish is good and that I'll have more chances to learn French. pleaseandthanks.</p>
<p>Espanol es bueno. Tu vas a tener mas oportunidades para aprender a franc</p>
<p>Haha, gracias.</p>
<p>I didn't sign up for French because I was convinced that Spanish would be "more useful," that French wasn't widely used anymore, and that it was better for me since I was able to skip a year of Spanish whereas I would've been in the introductory French class (I did Spanish in Jr. high).</p>
<p>Hey maybe you can still take French at a cc or something. I'm in Spanish, but I really want to take French too!</p>
<p>The truth is Spanish is probably better, but yeah you probably should have taken French if you really wanted to!</p>
<p>I'm in the same boat as you. I'm thinking of doing French or Russian for my Humanities credits in college.</p>
<p>so take both. no biggie.</p>
<p>yeah take both. study french outside of school. nothing's stopping you.</p>
<p>Spanish is much faster growing, in terms of global speakers, and Spanish's use will be felt much more in the USA especially as the hispanic population here explodes in upcoming years. I took that into account when I first started French long ago, though, because I knew I'd much rather go to France than say, Mexico. :p</p>
<p>You can always learn French later--it's very very common to take a different language altogether in college than the one you've been studying in HS, if you've already gotten basically fluent in the spanish by then. At least, that's what I'm lead to believe.</p>
<p>can you still call up your school's administrators and switch?</p>
<p>They're both very prominent languages. Spanish is spoken in Central and South America, while many Europeans know French as either their first (France, Belgium, Luxembourg) or second (Germany, England, etc) language - and don't forget northwestern African countries like Senegal, Guinea, and Mali. Plus, look at the Olympics - the two official languages that are always spoken (I think) are English and French, and also the host country's official language.</p>
<p>I'm not trying to advocate French over Spanish right now, just pointing out that both are very prominent languages on a global scale.</p>
<p>Whoops this is totally off topic, isn't it...</p>
<p>Anyway, why can't you switch to French before school starts? If it won't work in your schedule this year, try to arrange an independent study or online course or cc course for high school credit for this year and then continue on next year.</p>
<p>Oh and by the way it's quite easy to learn a second Latin-based language (like French!) once you know a couple (like English and Spanish!). You could start it later, like sophomore or junior year, and you will be able to catch on very quickly.</p>
<p>I guess this counts against Spanish, perhaps...</p>
<p>but if you like challenges, the high level spanish grammar is more difficult! :O</p>
<p>So drop Spanish and take French.</p>
<p>Take french at a local community college. It will probably help your spanish...because of the common Latin ancestry.</p>
<p>Le francais, c'est le meilleur. Tant pis.</p>
<p>you can always pick up french in college.</p>
<p>Anything French sucks, period. Deutsch ist sehr gut. Mochten Sie Deutsch lernen?</p>
<p>Where's the damn umlaut for o...</p>
<p>Whoa. Whoa. French = sex.</p>
<p>I hate myself. </p>
<p>It's not that easy just to drop the class. My books have already been ordered, etc. Blahblah. L&$<em>@&#</em>^@&#^@&!!</p>
<p>Since I'm deeply rooted in Mexican genes, and being that Spanish was my first language, it's been a breeze for me. Plus, if you learn Spanish, you can talk to me!</p>
<p>Espero que tu decision sea el Espanol!!</p>
<p>I wish I knew how to do... hmmm.... "enjye" on the computer... without the keypad.</p>
<p>Yea.. I remember making the decision of whether to take french or Spanish. It was either "the more useful one" or "The beautiful one". Well asking around, many people who took spanish for the "usefulness" never really used it anyway. So in the end, I chose the beautiful one :-)</p>
<p>I made the same mistake in high school, so I'm taking French this semester as a soph in college.</p>
<p>S</p>