Can someone give me really good reasons to take French?

Question

So can anyone? I want to take French in school next year (In addition to what I currently take: Mandarin and Spanish) but I don't really know why. I love languages and want to learn French. I know French is a large global language, and it wouldn't be as hard as normal (I'm pretty good at learning languages, plus with each language you learn, even if they aren't related, the next gets easier, and also I know Spanish). So can anyone just give me a list of someone REALLY good reasons? I need to convince my parents... darn parent signatures.

Answer 1

In no particular order:



It would not mean lots of extra homework time, because it will be easy for you since you're good at languages and already know Spanish (which is extremely similar).



The more languages a person knows, the more likely they'll be valuable to a company that does business with people/companies from other countries. In the ever-expanding global market, this is valuable!



You can combine your knowledge of languages with a major in business or law or just about anything else and become more highly paid than people who know only one language. (Example: My cousin knows 7 languages and has a degree in law. She has worked in the U.S. as well as other countries as a specialist in international law.)



Of course, you could become an interpreter. I still remember touring the United Nations building in NYC when I was in sixth grade. You would put these headphones to your ears and spin the dial on them to hear the speaker in any language you need. The U.N. requirement for hiring someone is three languages. Possibly other interpreter positions have the same requirement.



This way you could become an ambassador to China, Spain, OR France! (or other countries that speak those languages)



Anytime you learn ANYTHING, it expands your brain.



You enjoy languages. You will get school credit for taking a course you like. You will get good grades in it. Why not get credit and pull up your average for doing something you enjoy anyway? And even if you were just doing it for fun, what's wrong with fun? Your parents let you do other fun things, right?



When you visit countries that speak the languages, you will get SO much more out of your visit. You will understand every exhibit and, much more important, be able to actually speak to the PEOPLE to learn things you could never learn from a tourist stop.



If your parents are worried because you want to take French INSTEAD of another subject, let them know you can study that subject later on. The younger you are when you learn a language, the easier it is to learn it and to adopt the accent. Or, agree to take the other subject in school, and then learn French on your own from a computer program or CD's at home.



Bon Chance! (Good Luck!)

Answer 2

Hello there! Just desired to mention that I'm French so yeah you are not able to simply lower a complete populace to so little matters. In France there are sixty six billions one of a kind men and women. Obviously we are not all of the identical. We simply talk an extra language, have one of a kind tradition, and reside in an additional nation. But instead of that we are human too so i do not get why we will have to all be the identical. Are you all of the identical in America? Or in Great Britain? Or in Ireland? I do not feel so. You are not able to simply hate a populace like that men and women. Well until it is of their tradition to do terrible matters like simply ruining the arena. Well some thing that is simply my opinion. I'm no longer quite seeking to preserve "my" nation considering that i am not quite keen on men and women most often :') I'M JUST ******* AMAZED AT HOW THE **** HUMANS JUST ****** THIS WORLD UP IN SO LITTLE TIME. That being stated, love you all and do not seem an excessive amount of into what i stated considering that it is simply a lot of my ideas placed randomly in combination i feel. And excuse my viable errors considering that English is not my first language (I want it used to be.) Have a GOOD and WONDERFUL Day. Duh.

Answer 3

Well french is extremely close (in grammar, conjugation etc) to spanish, so it won't be very difficult for you to begin franch as you already know spanish.



French is spoken in a lot of places: France, of course, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxemburg, a lot of african countries (former colonies), and many islands (polynesia, guadeloupe, etc).

In business, French is also spoken quite a lot.



Anyway, it's always very interesting to have several languages on your resume.



On an intellectual level, french is the language of the Enlightenment by excellence. Many important actors of this age (philosophers, and most of all writers) were French.



I hope I helped :)

Answer 4

You can run a business in Paris. I don't know otherwise