Should I take Russian or French or neither one?

Question

I was wondering if I should take an independent study course next year in either French or Russian. I am going to be in eighth grade, with two english and math freshman classes. I took an IQ test last year and have a verbal IQ of 137. I'm also a capable straight A student. The course is set up so that if I start in September I have a whole year to finish. I would get high school credit for it. However, my schedule is pretty hectic and I don't know how I would handle another class. But if I do this course I could be a college sophmore by the time I graduate. Don't ask me how this works, it's just something my school counselor told me. In addition to my regular classes (there are eight of those), I'm taking the following extracurriculars:
Piano
Choir
Voice Lessons (probably)
Vollyball
Youth Group
So should I take the course or not? My parents said if I thought I could handle it I probably could, but I wanted to get someone else's perspective.

Answer 1

French- I know Russian, sort of because I'm Bulgarian, and unless you want to be a translator or work with the FBI it really doesn't "count" for anything. I mean it's a good language to know but French should get you a little ahead. if you want to really make a good choice take Spanish, Japanese or Chinese.

Answer 2

I just graduated from high school. I took French for 2 years. The summer of my senior year i had the opportunity to travel to Japan. For this i learned a few basics. If you want to learn a language just for looks on a transcript it really doesn't matter. If your doing it to gain knowledge for a career I personally would say Japanese if your school has it. If not, Spanish then French. Spanish is very much like French being a Latin derived language and is becoming more and more popular as we are getting more Spanish speaking immigrants. The choice is up to you though. A foreign language is tough but rewarding.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

French is becoming a useless language. Seriously.

If you want to work in the US or anywhere south, study Spanish. If you want a SERIOUSLY high paying job, study Arabic.

If your only choices are French and Russian, study Russain. The Cyrillic alphabet will give you some practice for dealing with entirely different alphabets.

Answer 5

With that load, lots of luck - my tested IQ is higher than that and I would find it daunting.
As for Russian or French - neither one unless you plan on doing something with the literature of the language. Japanese or Chinese are more likely to be useful over the next 40 years although the languages of the Middle East might also have promise if they don't kill each other off.

Answer 6

French is spoken by more people. Russian has a harder grammar (it's a declined language, as well as an agglutinative one -- i.e. it "thinks" differently from most other European languages), and for some reason, the pronunciation just KILLS English speakers.

I don't know what it is, but English speakers just can't pronounce Russian comprehensibly.

Answer 7

I agree with you parents if you can handle it why hot take it. I'm native Russian speaker and I'm trying to help my husband learn some russian but he struggles with pronunciation and grammar (his first language is English). Russian grammar is pretty hard. French is beautiful language and if you are intending to got to France it will be extremely helpful. But if you are planning to be the next James Bond take russian.

Good Luck.

Answer 8

It will look startling on your college apps. But, only take it if you can handle it. Its' better to have 5 A's then 3A's and 3 B's because you couldn't handle stuff.

Maybe you want to rethink the number of EC's you are doing. Pick a good two-three, and work hard at them. Colleges want to see depth, not breadth.