ahhhh iono what to do!

Clueless · Post by **Clueless** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 9:32 pm

i have to register for my classes for the next 3 years and i dont kno what classes to take!!! its really bugging me... do you think i should take spanish or french???

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Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 10:55 pm

I would find examples of each language and see which one you like better. Unless you live near Québec, Spanish would probably be more of an asset. However, I don’t think one should choose a language solely by its usefulness. Maybe you will have time for both. That was the case with me.

Most people seem to think Spanish is easier than French. I think that is true at least initially. French spelling is very complicated, involving many silent letters and diacritics. Spanish, on the other hand, is much more predictable with its spelling. It’s not fun to wonder if that blank on your French test should have been “parler”, “parlé”, “parlais”, “parlait”, “parlez”, “parlée”, “parlées”, “parlaient”, or “parlai”. (They all sound like “par-LAY”.)

Spanish has four ways to say “you”, but French only has two. (EDIT: One of those four is only used in Spain, but I think most Spanish classes still teach it.) Spanish speakers frequently leave subject pronouns off, so verb conjugation is perhaps more important in Spanish. Spanish and French both have many irregular verbs, but it seems to me that Spanish has more conjugation irregularities.

French pronunciation seems harder for me overall, but rolling a Spanish “rr” is the hardest thing my tongue has ever tried to do. Unlike spelling, French pronunciation is actually pretty predictable. I mean, you can sound out a word from text with a good chance of pronouncing it correctly. However, I do believe it lacks as much predictability as Spanish.

Which do I prefer? I greatly prefer French. I love how it looks and sounds. I’m in Spanish II, but I still study French more.

Mind you, I have friends who have taken both but greatly prefer Spanish.

I hope I was helpful! I’m not very far in Spanish yet, so I can’t offer a deeper comparison.

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Bookworm · Post by **Bookworm** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 12:24 am

I told Clueless that French sounds more romantic than Spanish. Even the sentence "Where is the bathroom?" would sound romantic in French.

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Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 12:47 am

Bookworm wrote: I told Clueless that French sounds more romantic than Spanish. Even the sentence "Where is the bathroom?" would sound romantic in French.

Hehe… The phrase “Où sont les toilettes?” is something I’ve never felt comfortable saying.

Behold the power of French:<ul><li>The soup of the day: $2.45</li><li>La soupe du jour: $5.00</li></ul>
You just can’t do that with Spanish.

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Bookworm · Post by **Bookworm** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 3:39 pm

Tak wrote:
Bookworm wrote: I told Clueless that French sounds more romantic than Spanish. Even the sentence "Where is the bathroom?" would sound romantic in French.

Hehe… The phrase “Où sont les toilettes?” is something I’ve never felt comfortable saying.

Okay, I was wrong. Definitely not romantic.

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Clueless · Post by **Clueless** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 4:35 pm

im gonna take french, it sounds cooler, and my friend told me how to say i would love you, but you're mean, it was funny, i cant remember how to say it tho

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 5:26 pm

Je t'aimes? Now you remember.

Yeah take french, it may also help you in the work world since lot of jobs look for bilingial people.

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Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 6:51 pm

Red Squirrel wrote: Je t'aimes? Now you remember.

Yeah take french, it may also help you in the work world since lot of jobs look for bilingial people.

I thought “I would love you” is “je t’aimerais”.

Taking French will make Spanish easier if you ever wish to learn it later. (The same goes for Italian, Portuguese, or anything else in that language family.) Saying “I have hunger” instead of “I am hungry” doesn’t seem so silly the second time around, and you will have long ago accepted that your chair has a gender.

I hope you like French!

Which language is more popular at your school?

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 7:02 pm

Oh yes if you go with "I would love you" you are right but "I love you" is how I said it. And that's what she said, I miss read.

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Clueless · Post by **Clueless** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 7:44 pm

Tak wrote:
Red Squirrel wrote: Je t'aimes? Now you remember.

Yeah take french, it may also help you in the work world since lot of jobs look for bilingial people.

I thought “I would love you” is “je t’aimerais”.

Taking French will make Spanish easier if you ever wish to learn it later. (The same goes for Italian, Portuguese, or anything else in that language family.) Saying “I have hunger” instead of “I am hungry” doesn’t seem so silly the second time around, and you will have long ago accepted that your chair has a gender.

I hope you like French! Which language is more popular at your school?

lol my chair has a gender? creepy... iono what language is most popular

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VictorEM83 · Post by **VictorEM83** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 1:56 am

In the US I would go spanish I mean, not to offend anyone but there are far more people that use english as a second language and spanish as there 1st. I've never needed to know French in reatil but spanish and russian are big extras.

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Reaper · Post by **Reaper** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 11:28 am

Bookworm wrote: I told Clueless that French sounds more romantic than Spanish. Even the sentence "Where is the bathroom?" would sound romantic in French.

Actually, they are both Romantic languages. So is Italian. Know what I mean by Romantic?

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Clueless · Post by **Clueless** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 12:00 pm

VictorEM83 wrote: In the US I would go spanish I mean, not to offend anyone but there are far more people that use english as a second language and spanish as there 1st. I've never needed to know French in reatil but spanish and russian are big extras.

ya but then ill be much more interesting if i know french since spanish is more commen

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Clueless · Post by **Clueless** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 12:00 pm

Reaper wrote:
Bookworm wrote: I told Clueless that French sounds more romantic than Spanish. Even the sentence "Where is the bathroom?" would sound romantic in French.

Actually, they are both Romantic languages. So is Italian. Know what I mean by Romantic?

ummmmmm no, what do you mean by romantic

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VictorEM83 · Post by **VictorEM83** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 3:07 pm

Spanish is only romantic with an accent, French is only romantic cuz we know frech girls give it up easy

and Italian is romantic cuz there italian women know how to cook .

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Reaper · Post by **Reaper** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 5:31 pm

A Romance (or Romantic) language is a language that came from Latin. Those would be French, Spanish, and Italian.

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Clueless · Post by **Clueless** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 6:00 pm

ahhh, i see, well thats weird

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 2:13 am

latin is cool, if you print random latin characters on glass, it can prevent ghosts from passing through.

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Clueless · Post by **Clueless** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 7:14 pm

if ghosts were real maybe

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VictorEM83 · Post by **VictorEM83** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 2:30 am

ghost:

1. The spirit of a dead person, especially one believed to appear in bodily likeness to living persons or to haunt former habitats.
2. The center of spiritual life; the soul.
3. A demon or spirit.
4. A returning or haunting memory or image.
5.
1. A slight or faint trace: just a ghost of a smile.
2. The tiniest bit: not a ghost of a chance.
6. A faint, false image, as:
1. A secondary image on a television or radar screen caused by reflected waves.
2. A displaced image in a photograph caused by the optical system of the camera.
3. A false spectral line caused by imperfections in the diffraction grating.
4. A displaced image in a mirror caused by reflection from the front of the glass.
7. Informal. A ghostwriter.
8.
1. A nonexistent publication listed in bibliographies.
2. A fictitious employee or business.
9. Physiology. A red blood cell having no hemoglobin.

Thus ghosts are real, it just mater to the type you are refering too.

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Reaper · Post by **Reaper** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 5:18 pm

I like 8-2

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Shinizo · Post by **Shinizo** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 11:30 pm

Take turkey as a second language. Everyone wants to learn to speak Turkey. Especially them turkey hunters. They're always doing the calls all wrong!

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