I studied Latin, to prep for the SATs... in retrospect, perhaps a shortsighted decision. Bee and I honeymooned in Spain, and I was impressed by how she was able to talk to everyone with her high school Spanish!
What language did you take in high school? Have your language studies proved useful?
GOLD / wonderful pea / 17697 posts
Spanish, but I only really retained the very, very basics. I keep planning on trying to pick it up again through duolingo or something similar but I haven't had the follow-through...
cantaloupe / 6791 posts
Spanish. And I took some in college too. I teach in an area with a high population of ESL kids (7 of my 18 kids speak Spanish as their first language). They've taught me way more than my high school/college classes ever did.
blogger / wonderful cherry / 21616 posts
American Sign Language and Spanish. I still know a little of both.
honeydew / 7488 posts
Latin. Loved it so much! Wasn't so useful but the mythology, history, writings, etc were fascinating.
grapefruit / 4903 posts
I took French in high school and German in college. I don't use them much these days, but I definitely have in the past! I studied abroad in Germany, and I've traveled a fair amount and used them then.
cantaloupe / 6923 posts
French... Kissing. No but I took Spanish. I know enough but that was because I was teaching myself hardcorely when I was 18 because I was moving to Spain.
kiwi / 556 posts
Latin and German. Both very, very basic.
My mother tried to convince me when I was 13 to sign up for Japanese instead of German. I refused, thinking it was dumb.
I ended up living in Japan for 3 years. Mum was right, althoguh I did work a summer in Germany 
honeydew / 7917 posts
Spanish, and I remember very little. Language wasn't required in college, and I only took the minimum required classes in high school.
nectarine / 2994 posts
German, I can only remember how to say Good Morning and how to count 0-10 these days!
coconut / 8430 posts
French. I had to take it starting in elementary school and stopped sometime in highschool. I don't remember very much!
GOLD / coconut / 8266 posts
@mrbee: I also took Latin and loved it! It made studying Spanish much easier.
honeydew / 7909 posts
Spanish. I took a semester in college too but I don't remember a whole lot.
cantaloupe / 6885 posts
I was in a French immersion school from k-12. It's very useful today since I live in a bilingual community.
grapefruit / 4089 posts
French - we start learning it in elementary school, and have to continue taking it through our first year of high school, and then you can choose whether or not to continue on with it. I took it one extra year and then stopped.
I don't remember very much of it. Looking back, I wish I'd continued to study it because I was always a high 90s french student, and I'm sure it would have been useful to me now.
hostess / wonderful persimmon / 25556 posts
French. It got me a trip to France with my mom...that's about all the good it did me.
squash / 13208 posts
2 yrs Spanish then 2 yrs Latin - I only took Latin because they got to go to NYC every year for a field trip! 
Neither have been useful really. I know a few Spanish things but not much
wonderful pear / 26210 posts
Haha, Mr. Bee, I studied Latin as well, 4 years! I don't remember a thing and it didn't help me at all with my SATs, because we learned it like a language, not to strengthen words!
wonderful pea / 17279 posts
Spanish, 7th- 12th grade. I tested well enough in college not to have to take a language. Big mistake because Rosette Stone is challenging.
pear / 1554 posts
Spanish...it did help a little when I used to work in a restaurant where most of the kitchen staff and busboys spoke Spanish. Now that we're living in Asia, I've only used it once. One of the nurses at the hospital in tokyo where I had dd1 spoke Spanish but not English.
honeydew / 7091 posts
Spanish, 6th - 12th grade. I even started a minor in Spanish in college, but dropped it when I switched Universities and majors.
I know enough to communicate when DH and I go to Mexico, and to have a brief understanding when I hear others speaking in Spanish. I wish I knew more though
blogger / watermelon / 14218 posts
French! I spent 2 weeks living with a family in France my sophomore year and it was a great experience!
Wagon Sr. took Russian (the only offering at his high school at the time) and it's so cool when he can speak or understand things! He wants to get a textbook and start studying it again.
wonderful kiwi / 23653 posts
I took French... Barely remember anything now! I should've taken Spanish!
pomegranate / 3244 posts
Spanish, but it took me 3+ years living in Spanish-speaking countries to become fully fluent. Now I can switch between the two without any problems.
GOLD / wonderful olive / 19030 posts
Spanish, the only language offered at my small school. And in reality I remember very little besides words here and there.
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