I took 3 years of Spanish in high school, but my knowledge of Spanish is very sketchy and I would not claim to speak or read the language.
I took 2 years of French in middle school (they didn't offer Spanish) and did well at it, but didn't take a 3rd year because I didn't think I would ever use French.
Yeah, the only thing is that a lot of graduate studies that I would want to do require reading knowledge of a language...and that takes a lot of effort.
I really hope to avoid that if I go for a history BA or masters. I mostly care about American history anyway, so I don't exactly need to read much in the original foreign langauge.
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Date: 2009-06-21 05:17 am (UTC)I took 2 years of French in middle school (they didn't offer Spanish) and did well at it, but didn't take a 3rd year because I didn't think I would ever use French.
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