<p>Which language would you learn if you had to choose: French or German?</p>
<p>Explain your points please. :-) thanks</p>
<p>French. A lot easier. German is ridiculous and doesnt sound nice..</p>
<p>I'd choose French. In fact I had to choose one in 9th grade and I did choose French. It's cos I simply liked the way it sounded when the native speakers talked. Back then I hated German.
But now I see French has some really good advantages over German. It REALLY helps with the SAT. You see that you already know many SAT words because you studied french. Also there is the myth that after learning French, it's hilariously easy to learn Italien, Spanish and Latin.</p>
<p>French: prettier and more widely spoken. Also, because it's a Romance Language, it is easier to learn Spanish, Italian, and that other obscure Romance language (as mentioned above) - though not necessarily Latin, which is just ridiculous. At the very least, cognates will help you understand a lot of words.</p>
<p>I've had to learn both for my major (French and German are often required for humanities research). German is much easier and very useful in business, but French can be useful too. I personally prefer German because I like their literature (especially Medieval lit).</p>
<p>I'm probably going to major in Anthropology, jtyn (just to let you know)</p>
<p>I would definitely choose French... I did choose it over Spanish in middle school. I love French because Paris is awesome... and I guess it's more widely used than German. German would also be cool to know, though.</p>
<p>glucose- I'm an archaeology major, close to anthropology. :) Absolutely learn both if you plan to go to graduate school. Pick whichever you like better if you plan to go to medical/law/etc. school.</p>
<p>German. I've been taking both and German is so much better. I think it's harder than French cause French is easy. And you'd sound cool if you spoke German.</p>
<p>I would rather learn German. Spanish and French are not as closely related as some people seem to think. I do ballet, where all the terms of movement are in French, and trust me...none of the words sound the same or even look the same in Spanish.</p>
<p>French but German is cool too.</p>
<p>Plus French Literature > German Literature!</p>
<p>German
first good reason: english is a germanic language. You are studying anthropology, so the history of english now becomes clear! also makes middle english a sinch.
second: it is amazingly easy to learn despite popular rhumors to the contrary.
third: it is just more fun...</p>
<p>Chinese. Why? Because I plan to adopt my kiddos from China and I want to be an international lawyer. And besides, I'm already studying Spanish, French, and Russian. Almost fluent in Spanish, too.</p>
<p>French because I have had a taste of romance languages</p>
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<p>Did you even read the first post? How on earth does that help glucose101?</p>
<p>Ah, well. I would say French because:</p>
<p>a)France is a really cool country.
b)French is used widely as a business language.
c)It makes Italian and Spanish much easier to learn. (Or Portuguese or Romanian; they're both romance languages.)
d)It makes SATs or other vocabulary tests much, much easier.</p>
<p>That's just my 2 cents.</p>
<p>German because I'm 3/16 german and would like to visit there one day to do horsey stuff (germany=horse masters). Also I already took french and feel comfortable where I am with it. I feel like I could travel there and be conversational, so I dont feel the need to stody it anymore. Plus german just sounds so cool.</p>
<p>On a different note, would you rather learn Japanese, German, or French?</p>
<p>I'm gonna be an Anthropology major, probably a corporate lawyer, and I wanna credit-by-exam for the language I choose to learn.</p>
<p>Oh ya, I'm fluent in Spanish, which is why I stopped in school.</p>
<p>I'd go with German.</p>
<p>Then again, I'd rather learn Norwegian, or maybe Finnish, or maybe Swedish, over German.</p>
<p>The Germen language is sexy</p>