Agreed. When I did my semester abroad in France, the French kids regarded the ones who took Italian, Spanish, or Portuguese and coping out and taking "easy" lan

Agreed. When I did my semester abroad in France, the French kids regarded the ones who took Italian, Spanish, or Portuguese and coping out and taking "easy" languages. I'm at the advanced intermediate level in French and have only lightly studied Spanish. I can follow many conversations in Spanish that happen around me.