Spanish or French?

economiss
Mon, 08 Jul 2013 23:35:13 +0000

I’ll be an entering freshman in the Fall and I’m really torn about whether I should study French or Spanish.

Spanish
-I have taken it in middle school and high school. Nothing impressive (my school wasn’t strong in languages), but at least I’ve had consistent exposure to it and have the basics down.
-It seems like it would make more sense as far as fulfilling the FL requirement. I could probably achieve fluency more quickly.
-If I live in the US as an adult, Spanish would probably be the more useful
-Study abroad opportunities: Cordoba, Puebla

French
-Gorgeous sounding language
-Spoken in a wide variety of places (France, African countries, French Canada, Morocco, etc.)
-Study abroad: Paris, Aix en Provence, Morocco, probably more. (I like the study abroad locations and variety more for French)
-If I don’t live in the US as an adult, I think it would be cool to live in a Francophone country/place. Especially for grad school. (In my fantasy world haha)

I know it’s a bit early, but this has been heavily occupying my thoughts for some reason. I want to learn both, I just feel conflicted on which to learn first. I feel like I really WANT to take French first, but that Spanish would be more logical.