I liked French in elementary school, where we still basically took English and it was more an overview of the language and of France. I still feel a little bit intimidated when I think back to my high school French. Once you got to French II the teacher wouldn't allow English spoken in the class and she was fiesty.

I learned to French in 7th grade... oh, you mean talk French..... Nevermind.

I was always pretty good at learning French, but I've never had a decent opportunity to speak it. I've been to France twice (both times were Nice, but still...) and it turned out everyone there spoke English! (Note: the driving there is very similar to Rome)

my family speaks it but i dont

I don't remember a lick of it, I do however remember who sat directly behind me making fun of Mr. Lyons the whole time...love you Bill, even if you did make me have to stand in the hall for talking that one time!!!

The french language is more of a hearing language and isn't as cool sounding as German.

did not do.

negative

ummm i dont speak french! nvr had that class..

Don't like french much..

Took it for 4 years - loved it!

i hate those french people

GREAT

If you're going to take a foreign language, take one you can use...take Spanish.

c'est tres enneyeur (boring), as we only do tenses that half the class dont get but were set 2, WTF????

HAHAHA, our teacher was hilarious! Not a very good teacher though. The guy didn't even like The Simpsons, he was always bitching about it. "that show is crap. It must be an American thing cuz I don't like it!" He was a good laugh though

Wish I had taken it in school but learned what little I do know from living in France awhile. I think it is a great idea to take a foreign language while even younger than high school. In Europe languages are started in grade school.

I enjoyed French class, but looking back, I'm not sure why understand why French is given such high visibility in American High Schools. Why not Dutch? Why not Portuguese? Why not German? French sounds pretty, but isn't particularly useful - at least compared to some other languages.

Well this taught me a valuable lesson.I could have got an easy A to bring up my gpa senior year had I taken spanish being that  Icould already speak it.but nooo,French sounded so cool..

Nothing against French, but it just seems that with the changing demographics in most parts of our country that Spanish is a much more useful class to take than French.

Fun and beautiful language, but with only 4 other students in my class by the third year, I felt like the idiot of the classroom because I didn't enjoy practicing it in my spare time.

I took French and you should also. It was the language of science, culture and diplomacy for centuries, and you can learn much by having a little knowledge of the language.

We had for like one week before our teacher had to leave.

I took French not out of choice, had too!!! I have also used it and although the French want you to speak it, all they do is ridicule you for trying. As for me I'm now one of those ENGLISH who would rather say: Foreign Idiots, why can't you understand English!!!! Not a hater of the Country, just very disgruntled with the people.  Maybe I just need to meet a nice one!!!!!  or maybe it is just a love hate relationship we have!

Ok, oscar:

"if you take this you'll become a rude, sniveling chain-smoking beret wearing mime performing craven with cheese pouring out of your ears"

Did I beat the clock, mes ami?

I never took it, I took Spanish in high school. I don't see a glaring need for it to be taught, but it's fine if kids take it.

Estimated time it'll probably take for some ignorant jackass to write a review saying, in effect, if you take this you'll become a rude, sniveling chain-smoking beret wearing mime performing craven with cheese pouring out of your ears- 1.5 minutes.

The language of love or so they say. Being a person who had to learn new language every 2-3 years in the past 15 years, makes you very open to other languages. I've taken French classes in High School and College and it came very smoothly to me. As a matter of fact, people didn't believe me when I told them I wasn't French.Je ne francais pas.

I always had a knack for foreign languages, this was the quickest "A", I ever earned. The class allows you to learn the language, as well as get to know the culture of the country. My teacher had even studied in Paris, so she had excellent stories of living there, with some pictures that she shared of some of the museums and attractions that some of the biger cities had to offer. Because of this class; I want to someday travel to France just to see it for myself...

Why? This is America.

I don't like taking French class. Don't accuse me of being prejudiced against French. I'm a quarter french, a quarter Italian, a quarter Polish, and a quarter Native American. French is a complicated language and it's not easy to learn. I found Japanese, Swahili, and Spanish easier.

I have to laugh at the idiots and Philistines who posted drooler anti-French messages here: lockstep, rubberstamp, up boy up!!! Jump through the Douche Windbag/Sean Hannity hoop!!! What clods. Little do thise douchewads know that the language they attempt to speak, but do a really lameass job at, namely English, is about 65% French. These dumbbells don't realize that they're attempting, albeit unsuccessfully, to speak a language whose Mother Tongue is actually French. But seeing how moronic people who think like this typically are, this idea probably never entered the rancid Maypo they use for brains.

The French language is really beautiful, and they have good food, but other than that I don't like their culture, and the language is very hard to learn.

French suck they are total losers no one likes them anymore. All they do is turn their backs on us. They didn't help us and they are cowards.

Bonjour! Je m'appelle Snoopy. Comment allez-vous? I liked French class. I found it very easy to remember the French words that we learned. I was great at reading and writing French, but I never did too well with spoken French and conversing with someone, but that's probably because I'm hearing-impaired and had trouble hearing the correct sounds.

used to be fun in middle school but it's so damn boring and useless now that i'm going to drop it next year. besides i ain't going to france anytime soon. i should've taken spanish!

I took this in college and managed a "C". I hated it and would skip at least one or two classes a week. French sounds like you are talking with your mouth full of marbles.

Well, it's no big secret why this subject is last on the list. Despite what most people feel about France, I think French is a beautiful language, and an interesting subject.

At school I had the choice between French and German and (silly me) picked French. Big mistake. While German falls easily on a Swedish tongue (we share a lot of words and pronounciations) French nearly bit mine off. I studied it for four years (well, studied and studied, I think I half-slept through many of the lessons) and the only two sentences I can pronounce half decently (but still not spell) is the chorus from 'Lady Marmalade' and something from a make-up commercial. It is a very beautiful language (when you don't hear me butchering it) and it is still a very useful one but for me personally, it just gave me a whole lot of grief.

A very useful language spoken all over the world. I took 4 years of this too and used it when I was in France. Enough of the French bashing also! They have a right to their opinion and I'm starting to wonder about what direction America is heading. All this hate for a country that did nothing to us but disagree with Bush is very disturbing.

Who wants to talk like an anti-American, shameless bastard? ha

This was my favorite subject in high school (and in college, but our college only offered one year). I would have become a French teacher eventually if I had not felt another calling. The language was very difficult for me at first, but once I caught on, I got so good at it that my test scores (on that subject alone) were better than those of our school's valedictorian, who graduated with a perfect 4.0 - I won't mention my grades in other classes.