What third language to take?

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<p>With a schedule consisting of degree requirements and third year Japanese, I have 12 credits of classes. I want to take another class; I was going take International Relations but the professor has gotten some less than glowing reviews; the students I've talked to say there are much better classes that fulfill that GE (1 of the 2 I haven't fulfilled). (I was orginally going to take honors Literature class, but it doesn't look like they're going to be offering that one).</p>

<p>So I've decided I pretty much want to take one of these three foreign language intro classes--all of them 5 credits--Russian, French, or Turkish.</p>

<p>French is the most "useful" of the three, but it's an early morning class amd probably the language I'm least interested in taking for the sake of taking, but I could actually see real possibilities in it. *I have some background in Italian but doubt that would carry over much.</p>

<p>Russian is at a good time schedule-wise and fairly interesting to me, but not my first choice. Decent usefulness. There's not much to say here either way.
I've heard it's very hard to advance in.</p>

<p>Turkish seems really interesting to me, out of the box, etc. I know it's not really in-demand, but I just want to take it. It's a bad-ish time, late afternoon M-R (Others are M-F). I have classes for three straight honors T-R, 5 straight M with the Turkish class (no classes before 12 noon), but I could rearrange an hour's break in there at the cost of getting up earlier. Really, really small class (single digits).</p>

<p>Thanks.</p>

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<p>Russian. It's difficult(for me at least...im not your "average" CCer), but fun to learn.</p>

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<p>Do you study Russian indepently or in school?</p>

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<p>On my own. I've spent nearly $300 on books/resources.</p>

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<p>Turkish! It seems like the one you're most drawn to, and if you have to take another class you might as well enjoy it.</p>

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<p>Latin (ten char)</p>

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<p>ebonics. (ten charactesr)</p>

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<p>Depending on what kind of Italian background you have, French could actually be really easy, especially if you're acquainted with sentence structure already.</p>

<p>Then again, I'd have thought that Russian would be more helpful than French.</p>

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<p>of course French. It's easier because it's similar to English</p>

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<p>^ Huh? I don't think so.
You already know 2 languages, isn't that enough? Geez</p>