Is International Business w/French a worthless degree?

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I’m thinking about switching my major from Marketing to International Business in w/ French & Western Europe. I’m taking a French class this semester to see if this is what I want. My school offers the degree & we have to choose from 11 languages: Arabic, Chinese, English (for international students only), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, or Spanish (from San Diego state website). I’m thinking French bc I took 4 years in hs already & it places me on sophomore level & if I choose another language, it would be a longer time in school for me. I want to eventually get an MBA & I’d eventually love to work in film/tv industry. However, I want to know a couple of things:

  1. Is doing a degree in International Business worthless despite the language emphasis? (Every single thing I pick I head termed as "worthless," but I don't believe that's simply true. It's experience & connections that get the job, right?)
  2. What are the advantages/disadvantages of taking each language?
  3. Is the job market looking for these majors with language emphasis? (I thought I saw an outlook in bilingual speakers & those willing to travel abroad).

Any final words of advice is greatly appreciated!

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An international business degree without a linguistic and geographic specialization is worthless. What’s international about it if you cannot work on a specific region.of world? Without that specialization you know a little bit about everything but not enough o make a difference. With the cultural and linguistic background, you become an asset.

French is useful for anything involving Canada #1 business partner), wines and spirits (cognac, Bordeaux…), eads /engineering, gas (Marcellus shale etc.) , West Africa, Haiti (as few people in the US speak Kreyol).
French is probably less common than Spanish in San Diego and easier than all of listed except for Italian. If you can reach a high level of proficiency (meaning, study abroad, if possible with an internship) then it can be a good pick.
If you do summer abroad, rather than a semester, you could try to attend /work in two different countries.
It sounds like you’re start from scratch in the other languages so choose the language where you’re likeliest to reach high proficiency.

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One thing that your degree could work very well with is the United Nations. English, French, and Spanish are the 3 “working languages” of the UN.