Use of French?

Pre-College Topics High School Life
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<p>I wonder if I should take French in addition to Spanish in high school. I see no obvious use of French here, nor do I know I will travel to France in the future. So people who take French whose first language wasn't taught in high school yet live in the US, can you please tell me the use of French? Should I take it or not?</p>

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<p>I took French instead of Spanish and I live in Texas… my reasons why

  1. French culture > Hispanic culture (in my opinion)
  2. The language sounds better (“prettier”)
  3. It’s more similar to English than Spanish is, vocab and grammatically somewhat.
  4. My mom is fluent and so is my sister.
  5. I plan on living in Qu</p>
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<p>Many papers concerning mathematics and classical languages are written in French, so if you plan on studying either of those, particularly beyond the undergraduate level, the ability to read French is quite vital.</p>

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<p>This is an image of countries where French is spoken: <a href=“http://flenet.rediris.es/acti/virginieT/carte_francophonie.jpg[/url]”>http://flenet.rediris.es/acti/virginieT/carte_francophonie.jpg&lt;/a&gt;
So, France is hardly spoken just in France. In the USA, we seem to have an idea of Spanish being much more widely spoken than French, but that’s because we live close to most of the world’s Spanish speakers.
French is more of an international language than Spanish is. When people in Eastern Asia, the Middle East, Africa, many parts of Europe, etc. learn a foreign language, they’re far more likely to learn French than they are to learn Spanish. So, if you’re going to travel a lot to anywhere besides Spain or South America, you’re probably going to find knowledge of French much more useful. However, English is the biggest second language, so as a native speaker, you might opt to go with the language you like more (Spanish) since you’re already going to be able to communicate with a lot of people in English.
Wikipedia estimates the number of French speakers, worldwide, to be as high as 600 million people. The total number of Spanish speakers is estimated to be, at highest, 450 mill.</p>

<p>My sister took French and she actually found a bit of use for it in the US. She worked in a bakery, and maybe it’s because she looks sort of French with her name tag on (first, middle, and last name are French) and a lot of people seem to think she’s from some French speaking island or part of Africa, but customers came in and spoke to her in French sometimes. Looking around where I live at least, I don’t see much use for Spanish.</p>

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<p>lolwut?</p>

<p>I don’t get it</p>

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<p>french is used in so many parts of thw world, plus it sounds amazing. i already know spanish, i mean i was born speaking spanish so i’m taking french</p>

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<p>i’m interested in the fashion industry, french is a plus.</p>

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<p>Millancad - Although you didn’t make the map, I’d ignore Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.</p>

<p>I’ve been told, from people who live there, that French is barely spoken (only the elderly know some).</p>

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<p>^ A Vietnamese guy moved to my school this year, and is in my French class, and said the same. But the thing I most wanted to emphasize is that people in most of the world are going to learn French long before they learn Spanish.</p>

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<p>yeah I used to live in Viet Nam and I dunno how to speak French, nor Chinese.
I don’t know if because I want to be a teacher, should I know French?</p>

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<p>people in Vietnam used to have to learn French in school. Both of my parents had to learn it and they were born in the 60s</p>

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<p>My dad was born in 1954. He learned Chinese but forgot all of them
My mom learned English in high school. She was born in 1960.</p>