German, Spanish or French?

Question

These are the three main languages taught in British schools. At my school you were able to choose the language you wished to learn. Which would (did) you choose and why?

Answer 1

German first, then French. Spanish is easy to pick up when you need it.
If you are going to study science then both German and French are very useful. I lived in Germany and it is a beautiful country. So are France and Spain. But I love Berlin. Paris is fabulous and so is Madrid. I don't really like to choose.
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Answer 2

I took no languages at school though the choices were French, Italian, German, Russian and Latin. I was considered incapable of learning a language so I concentrated on the engineering side of things. My career choice then led me to France (I learnt french and am totally fluent) Scandinavia (I get by in Danish and am understood by Norwegians and Swedes as well) and North Africa where I have picked up some basic Arabic but it is not literary rather dialectic. I think all three you have mentioned are of use in today's world but Spanish and French are probably the most useful and by mastering them or one of them you can move on to the other or any Latin based language with relative ease. Spanish is a natural for South America and French is more widely spoken than one would think especially in Africa. There is also a region of India where French is the main language, certain of the Caribbean islands Polynesia, Canada, Belgium, Switzerland and the Lebanon (this list is not exhaustive or even trying to be). Whatever the situation it does not matter what language you speak as long as you speak the truth.
My children are both bi-lingual English and French and one is taking a dgree in Italian and the other in Spanish.

Answer 3

Good question. I think French is the most useful of the three, being the most widely spoken and being the second language in many countries. French is a beautiful language, whereas German does not sound as melodic on the ear (just a personal observation)

I wasn't given the chance to learn Spanish, but would have chosen it as a second language rather than German.

Italian is the most beautiful language in the world in my opinion!

Answer 4

I'm American, but I learned Spanish as we have a large Hispanic population and I thought it would be useful. However, lately I have learned Portuguese, and I prefer it. Its a beautiful language. For some reason, Spanish bored me, I suppose I found it too easy. Whats nice about it is, there are many similarities in the languages so I can understand much of what Spanish speakers say.

Answer 5

Spanish and french are both languages derived from latin, so they have common things you can understand in both (written or slowly spoken ofcourse hehehe fast french speakers leave me like 'whaaat'?)

German is from a different language family (close to english) and well, Germany is the 'economical engine' of Europe as German people say... Plus, German is spoken in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

For a broader range of speakers I would say English and Spanish are the best, closely followed by French.

French chicks are hot, by the way... hahaha XD

Answer 6

At my school, we've been given a choice between French or Spanish. I chose both, and I've also taken Italian GCSE a couple of years early. I did Italian because I have Italian family and the Italian Consulate organised lessons.

I love languages, that's why I chose to do French and Spanish.

My Italian great-grandfather knew around 9 languages, and I think I might have inherited his penchant.

Answer 7

i find it a bit weird that you have to choose just the one.
i'm french, and learned both german and english at school (starting with german), also did 2 years of compulsory ancient greek (particular to my school). however i also had the option of learning spanish, italian or provencal (local dialcect) as a 3rd language (and now wish i'd taken the opportunity)...
once at university, the choices widened even further and i did 3 years of hindi, although i could very well have chosen russian, japanese or any of the zillion others on offer. unfortunately, the one i really wanted to learn (gaelic) wasn't available!!

Answer 8

I'd choose French. I heard German is very hard to learn as a second or third language.

Answer 9

I'm American and we could choose the same three at my school. I picked French because I'd always wanted to learn it. I later got one of my University degrees in French as well because I enjoyed studying it so much. I enjoy traveling in France and the Francophone world and hope to keep using the language, possibly as a physician (my second degree was biochem, and I'm currently earning my MD) in a French-speaking area in Africa.

Answer 10

In Italy we were able to choose one of these two groups: English OR French classes, English OR German classes, and the school decided - RANDOM, they said ;-) - which class to add you. I wanted English; my school made me study French :-) :-) :-) (we weren't allowed to change: too many families wanted English, someone desired French, only VERY valiant families desired German OR English for their children, for German in Italy is usually considered a difficult language).