Which college should I attend - - which foreign language should I take?

[Apocalypse]

Today I got a rejection letter from my first choice, West Point, just as I had expected.

This leaves me with two choices:
1. The Virginia Military Institute, the best public liberal arts college in the world.
2. Texas A&M, the largest (and arguably the best) ROTC program in the US.

Both fairly good schools. VMI is better for me academically since I'm planning on majoring in psychology. I kinda want a dual major in economics or business and VMI doesn't allow for dual majors though. I'm kinda planning on going to an ivy league school or somewhere after this to get a masters in psychology so I might be able to pick up the other major there. Texas A&M allows for dual majors and it has more girls. Texas girls look better on average than Virginia girls too. Not that it matters too much.

I also decided to tack on foreign language to this. I sucked in Latin. If I go to VMI, Spanish and French would probably be too hard for me too. Well, not really but I'd have to put more effort into it than I'd like to. You see, at VMI it is required to take 3 years of a foreign language or 2 years each of 2 foreign languages in high school to be sure people can handle the tough VMI standards. I am a total badass so I got in with only 2 really bad years of Latin. I'm worried that if I take French/Spanish/Latin, other people will have a large advantage over me.

This leaves me three other choices:
1. German
2. Japanese
3. Arabic
All appealing in their own ways. Arabic is the language I'd probably least want to take so unless someone has a real compelling argument that it might be useful, I probably won't take it.

Now, I won't decide soley on the input here, but I'd still like to hear what you people have to say on this issue.

[Asher]

College: Texas A&M

I know someone who's going there in compsci and likes it a lot.

Plus I'm not too fond of military schools and foreign languages.

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Texas A&M, so I can make fun of you when they play Oklahoma.

[Agathon]

Virginia

and dump all these girls' languages and take Classical Greek!!!!

[Rex Little]

Is there some reason you think German or Japanese would be easier for you than Spanish or French? Like, you already have some knowledge or experience in those languages? If not, I'd expect them to be harder. I sailed through French in high school and had an easy time with the one year of Spanish I took, but when I tried German in college, it threw me so bad I had to drop it.

My advice would be to take Spanish if you can possibly manage it. There's an awful lot of people in this country whose primary language is Spanish, and more on the way. Being able to talk with them could be a tremendous help to you at some point in your life. If I'd known I was going to wind up living in Southern California, I'd have concentrated on Spanish in high school instead of French.

[Apocalypse]

Originally posted by Rex Little
Is there some reason you think German or Japanese would be easier for you than Spanish or French? Like, you already have some knowledge or experience in those languages? If not, I'd expect them to be harder. I sailed through French in high school and had an easy time with the one year of Spanish I took, but when I tried German in college, it threw me so bad I had to drop it.

My advice would be to take Spanish if you can possibly manage it. There's an awful lot of people in this country whose primary language is Spanish, and more on the way. Being able to talk with them could be a tremendous help to you at some point in your life. If I'd known I was going to wind up living in Southern California, I'd have concentrated on Spanish in high school instead of French.

I'm saying that other people in the class would have more experience with French or Spanish while I wouldn't. Thus it might be hard, but it would be hard with other people and it would be easier to work with others on it.

[Kontiki]

If you have any background in Latin, plus obviously English, French or Spanish should be far easier than any of the other three languages. From what I've heard, Japanese and Arabic are among the hardest languages in the world to learn if your base is English.

[Asher]

German is a really cool language, my best friend is dual-majoring in CompSci and German, and during 10th grade he was on an exchange program in Germany.

German just sounds damn cool, and you can sound very menacing saying very simple and innocent things with it.

German

[Pekka]

Choose Finnish, the only language spoken in earth after 20 years.

[Apocalypse]

Originally posted by Kontiki
If you have any background in Latin, plus obviously English, French or Spanish should be far easier than any of the other three languages. From what I've heard, Japanese and Arabic are among the hardest languages in the world to learn if your base is English.

Once again I sucked ass in Latin and barely remember any of it. With French or Spanish I am also afraid I'd get help from people who know those languages well but not in a good way. I'd get them to translate something and I would really learn it, thus I'd be screwed.

[Apocalypse]

Originally posted by Pekka
Choose Finnish, the only language spoken in earth after 20 years.

I would, but sadly it isn't offered.

[Datajack Franit]

If you're not good at Latin, then forget about learning german verbs

[Jeremy Buloch]

German, and Texas A&M after you talked about it in the Apolyton channel.
Good luck Apoc.
-J.B.-

[Apocalypse]

Originally posted by Datajack Franit
If you're not good at Latin, then forget about learning german verbs

Part of it was that I didn't try too much at the time.

[Pekka]

Apocalypse, pay my tuition fees, and I will teach you for free!
We can do it army style so you learn fast, I'm sgt in charge of training, so we would really get it going!