> > Here in Central Florida, Japanese is quite obscure. Nobody seems to know anything about it, and it's certainly not offered at any local high schools or colleges. I asked my guidance counselor if there was any way I could learn it for college credit and she basically said that I'm out of luck. So I'm taking Spanish instead. Spanish is *very* common around here.
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> My son-in-law is from Peru. He moved to the U.S. when he was 16 and speaks English and Spanish equally well. When he was in college, he was told that he needed to take a "foreign" language, so he took Spanish. Made and A.
> Howard

I speak Chinese okay, and write it kind of so-so, but I'm pretty sure I could ace any first-year Chinese class. However, I do want to learn something, rather than just ace a class, so that's why I'm taking French. Unfortunately, the high school I'm going into is kind of tough, so I might just take Chinese for a year as a slack class.