Language

[annissamazing]

I'm very excited to take my foreign language classes, however, I'm having a problem deciding which one to take. I want to take them all! I've narrowed it down to 3:

French, because I took it in high school and still remember a lot of it.
Russian, because it's different.
American Sign Language, because it would be useful.

What would you take?

Comments

[sprgtime.livejournal.com]

Personally, I would hands-down take ASL, because I'm having a lot of fun learning it with Dax and it has been very helpful.
I've also read that small children (preK-3rd grade) who learn ASL and finger spelling have an easier time with reading & spelling.

If I'd taken French in high school... I'd be tempted to take it, just because that would make it an easy class. Although, I took Spanish in high school. I took 1 year of Spanish in college and my high school Spanish only helped me for about the first month or two of the class, I learned a lot more than I expected to, college foreign language was very hard-core compared to high school (just in my experience). I did end up enjoying the Spanish in college a lot, but now that it's been more than 10 years, I hardly know more of it than I did back in high school, so it didn't exactly stick.

Russian would be very cool. :) Not sure how often it would come up as useful, though.

[sorrowballad.livejournal.com]

French, you will learn a lot more in a college class. I have to admit, Russian sounds intriguing, though!

[insatia.livejournal.com]

I took a French intensive in college. Four hours a day four days a week. Madame Hayes did a good job and it really prepared me. I still have my french steno pad from high school.