what do you think of french?

After English, French is the second most learned language in the world. I've taken both French and Mandarin classes and if you're taking a language class for school and not really for yourself, I would recommend French. Although Mandarin initially seems more useful than French, unless you intend on practicing a lot and studying characters all day, you're not going to be able to retain it for very long because since there is no alphabet, it's hard to retain a lot of what you learn in class. Even though my family is Chinese and I speak and see it all the time, I have a huge issue remembering characters, so even for someone who lives in a Chinese home, I have trouble. On the other hand, French is a lot easier to remember and is less frustrating to learn and study because it's written in letters like the English language. It may not seem like a useful language in the states, but if you go to Europe, if the people don't speak English, there is a high likelihood they will speak French. I took French for five years and I don't regret it one bit. The French is a great culture to learn about and learning the language is a great gateway to do so.

Being in UK we have also the main course of French in our syllabus so I had chosen this and I thank myself for my choice today, French is such a beautiful language and spoken in many countries too. Even I have chosen a boyfriend from France. I am learning Mandarin now and I think if you have the opportunity of doing French then go for it you will enjoy the romantic language as we call it.

I agree with. I don´t think I´ll ever have to use french (except if I travel to France), I would prefer to learn japanese or mandarin, I guess those languages would be more useful.