Should I take Japanese, Chinese, or French in high school?

Question

I've been taking French for two years and am almost finished with French II. I think it's a beautiful language, but a lot of people say that it will be useless. I'm Chinese, but I don't read or write Chinese well. I'm decent at speaking, so I might have a good jump there. Japanese would just be cool. From what I've gathered so far, Japanese and Chinese will be the most useful languages... I can only pick one language and the school (Lawrenceville) seems to disencourage switching languages...

Answer 1

Depends on what you want to do later in life.
If you want to go into scientific work French
will be most useful to you. I am a mathematics
professor and read papers in French all the time.
If you want to go into business, probably
Mandarin Chinese would be most useful.
China is rapidly becoming a world power
and some elementary schools here are starting
to offer courses in Chinese.

Answer 2

well i speak a bit of chinese and some japanese my chinese is not that good .(i also speak sum french , and my native language and a bit of italian) Chinese is harder because of the charcters you have to learn and its tonal so so there for exmaple 4 differnet types of ways to say ma which can be a bit confusing but more people in the world speak chinese . I would say Japanese is a easier and the writerin even thought tehre are 3 different types is easier to remeber. And i would say teh prounciation is quite easy to learn too , a lot of people are starting to leanr japanese too so i think you shuld go with japanese .

Answer 3

As an Anglo-saxon, learning French is a way to understand your own Culture. French is also a scientific language, a language used in international contracts for its precision.
Chinese and Japanese are only spoken in China and Japan respectivly. So definitivly French!

Answer 4

Too me, Japanese is a fun language to learn. And if you like Anime, you benefit from it a lot. A lot of kids seem to be into Japanese today. I think it is because of the Anime. It's kinda hard at first, but fun.

Chinese, is hard to learn (to me) because it's a tonal language (word are spoken in different tones.)

Lots of kids take French, but French can sometimes be hard to pronounce.

When it came time for me to learn, I chose Japanese. I ended up liking it, and now, I'm fluent...well after continuing learning it after high school.

Answer 5

Choose Chinese, if you want to be a bussisness man, the future of bussiness is in China.

Answer 6

i live in japan and it's REALLY easy to speak it, but kind of confusing when you know chinese because you have to learn japanese characters which look similar to the chinese characters, so for me it would be pretty confusing, so i suggest taking chinese.