I took French because that's what my school taught. If I could have taken Spanish or mandarin I'd have been happy to. When I got to high school, the French (esp

I took French because that's what my school taught. If I could have taken Spanish or mandarin I'd have been happy to. When I got to high school, the French (especially endless conjugation) made me so despise language class I didn't even try Spanish, just added more math / science. My HS offered Spanish, French and Latin. It was a prep school so they suggested you only took Latin if you were interested in Law, Medicine or the Clergy. It'd have been better for me to spend all the time in French class in France instead (eg instead of an hour a day for 3 years, 11 weeks, hell even a month). I've picked up more on Spanish and French in 2 weeks in other countries than I did in 3 years in a classroom. There's a full immersion school around me for spanish, that seems to work a lot better.