Should i take french or spanish in high school?
I took French in high school because I thought it was "prettier" than Spanish, but I regret it. I love French, but considering that I live in California, Spanish is MUCH more useful. After I graduated from college, I ended up traveling to South America to take Spanish classes because I felt I really needed to catch up to all of my other peers who speak Spanish fluently here in the US. Spanish and French are both very popular in college. I wouldn't base your decision on that. Also, colleges don't prefer students who have taken French over Spanish or vice versa. Take whatever language will be most useful to YOU. Do you live in CA like me? Do you want to live and or work in Latin America? Take Spanish! :) Do you want to live and work in France or Quebec? Take French.
Should I take French AND Spanish in high school at the same time?
Well… It really depends whether or not you’ve actually spoken for three years en français, really, and of course, how far advanced you are in the French language.Background: I took a German course in 8th grade, which got us through a little less than a third of the German I book, because my fellow students were so darned SLOW to catch onto the material, and we kept having to review and revise it! Anyway, well… I do think that if you have actually been clearing a textbook every year in French, and will really be taking French III or IV in high school— well then, I seriously doubt that you will forget your French for Spanish, though the reverse might occasionally happen, as you get started with Spanish. (But no worries! Both languages are extremely similar, after all, and I’m sure a native speaker in either language could make out what you’re trying to say!)Also, I just wanted to say: I admire you for being so incredibly ambitious as to attempt becoming trilingual through high school, so… Good luck and Godspeed, if you decide to attempt it based upon my own (slightly pathetic) answer!
Can you learn Spanish and French at the same time in high school?
There are a couple of questions that are relevant: Will your high school allow you to take both Spanish and French at the same time? Is it possible for a non-prodigy learn Spanish and French from scratch at the same time? Should such a high schooler attempt this feat?I have no idea whether your high school will allow you to enroll in beginning French and Spanish at the same time. Your guidance counselor is likely to forbid or highly discourage such an idea. My middle school flat out wouldn’t let me take both French and Spanish in eighth grade. I chose French first (because it is more difficult) and learned Spanish in college. Your high school may be like my middle school was, or they may let you take both classes at the same time. Probably the former, if your guidance counselor is doing his/her job.Obviously, there is nothing stopping you from studying both languages at the same time on your own. You might consider the fact thay you probably will not learn Spanish and French at the same time as quickly as you would if you studied them individually, since you are also having to allocate mental energy to keeping the languages separated from one another in your memory. It takes a lot of work to keep your languages straight! French used to be my stronger language, so I used to slip into French when speaking Spanish. Now Spanish is my dominant language and I slop back into Spanish whenever speaking French.The final question is whether or not you >should< begin Spanish and French from scratch at the same time. I encourage you to pick one to study first, and then add the other one later. I am very glad that I got reasonably good at French before adding Spanish. The key to being able to speak a language well lies in not needing to consciously think about how to say what you are saying, but rather to speak using muscle memory. If you learn both languages at the same level at the same time, you will have neither language on “auto-pilot.”Good luck in navigating high school. Learn what you want to learn, regardless of what classes you are allowed to take.
Should I take French in high school?
A straight A student, well done. But you shouldn't feel pressurised to get an A in all, you simply do your best. I did both French and Spanish in high school, and any foreign language is hard to learn in the beginning, but once you get the hang of it you will love it. Both French and Spanish are latin based so once you learn one it makes it much easier to learn the other. I loved learning languages at school but always excelled more in French as that was the one I liked best, it always helps if you want to learn it and like it. Don't just give up on something before you start, fear of failure should simply be seen as an exciting challenge.
Can I study French and Spanish at the same time?
Actually, it can be an advantage to study them at the same time. In learning a second and third language, everyone will experience some amount of interference between the languages. You may find yourself dropping a word from French into the middle of a sentence in Spanish, but that is normal.If you study each language a little every day, keeping yourself sharp on what you are learning in both languages, that’s the best way to reduce the interference, and keep the two languages straight and separate in your mind. Add a few study habits to make each language distinct from the other. For example, you could study French in the morning and Spanish in the afternoon. French in the living room, Spanish in the bedroom. Anything that you can think of to separate your learning experiences will also help keep the two languages distinct in your mind.Then just accept the fact that you will make some mistakes, as your learning progresses rapidly.
Should I take Spanish or French in high school freshman year?
I’d take Spanish, especially if you live in the United States.More people speak Spanish than French. There are 220 million French speakers compared to 550 million Spanish speakers. This means that learning Spanish will allow you to communicate with a larger pool of people.Spanish-speaking countries are only becoming more important in the global scenario. Learning this language will give up multiple opportunities when you look for a job. This is crucial.Spanish is very similar to Portuguese. Speakers of both languages can communicate is they are patient. Which means that learning Spanish not only allows you to communicate with Spanish-speaking people, but also Portuguese-speaking people. In other words, Spanish allows you to communicate with more 260 million people.It’s easier for Americans. There are many Spanish-speaking people in the US and that number could grow. Thus, Americans are much more exposed to Spanish than French.There are exceptions, obviously. If you plan to work in a French-speaking African country, for instance, or live in France, picking French may be the best choice.
I failed Spanish in middle school, my options for language in high school are Latin, Spanish, German or French?
I took both French and Spanish in high school. I took French because Spanish 2 is really hard . But to be honest French is so easy , all you learn is culture , at the end of the year I we only learned half of the vocabulary that I learned in Spanish . What I have heard is that German class is fun , they have a German-American day , I heard that's fun. And they don't have latin at my school but all I know is that the class is as hard as statistics or calc. I would say take French , if you want to German.
What are French high schools like?
First of all, sorry for my english. - High school are much bigger in USA (an average french high school host 1 000 students, i 'd say). - Religious symbols are forbidden in our schools (secularism). - I heard that you have a lot of different classes in your country (for example: cuisine classe) and we don't have it in France and we don't have many clubs here. - In France, we don't have the same agenda everyday. I think i worked at school 30-34 hours a week. This is a "normal" agenda: 8-12h: work 12-13h30/14h: break 14-17/18h: work But, sometimes I began at 9 or 10 a.m and I finished at 16h and we don't work the sunday and afternoon wednesday. During my last year of High school, Evening saturday was reserved for testes. - In France, during the second year of High school, you've the choice between three courses of study: scientist, social and economic, literary. I was in the scientist course and there were my different classes (the last year): maths (7 or 8 hours), biology/geology (3.5 hours), physics/chemistry (5 hours), english (2 hours), spanish (2 hours), philosophy (3 hours), history/geography (3 hours), sport (2 hours) and latin -but it's an option- (3 hours). But, pupils in literary course took the math exam the second year of high school and don't have math or physics classes the last year but they have 8 hours of philosophy per week. - At the end of the last year, there is the final test "le baccalauréat" for all the pupils. (your average mark must be equal or above 10/20).