Originally Posted by Nautigal
I took French in high school, and have rarely found it useful. smile However, if you learn French, Spanish or Italian, you can more easily decipher any of the other of those three because they are related. That is, of course, providing you can actually remember any of it twenty years later.

I took French, and I only use it to decipher Spanish now.

Since Spanish is taught here extremely early, I would vote for Chinese or Japanese.