NO FRENCH! IT WILL EAT YOUR BRAINS OUT! DON'T DO IT! I HAD TO ENDURE YEARS OF THAT GODFORESAKEN LANGUAGE! PLEASE DON'T PUT YOURSELF THROUGH THAT! THE VERB CONJUGATIONS AND "EXCEPTIONS TO THE RULE(S)" ALONE WILL KILL YOU! DON'T DO IT! STICK TO CHINESE! PLEASE! LISTEN TO THE VOICE OF REASON!
French = good. Well, more like "Français = bon". Don't listen to aidar2ch: sure, it is more complicated conjugations (and tenses) than English or German, but it's nothing on, say, Latin. And its veritably threadbare compared to something like Sanskrit. Nor are there really that many exceptions. French is good.
That being said . . . yeah, French and fiction writing are pretty much always options. But that is probably true of physics too. You have three (or more) more years.
If you did French, though, we could try to write each other letters or emails or something in French. I did that for a bit with a friend of mine and it was really neat - both expressing myself (haltingly) in a foreign language in a non-class setting, and the fact that I had to look up a lot of words and remember grammar and such. It would reinforce your learning and help me refresh my French, one of my myriad of low-priority goals.
On the other hand, if you did French . . . you would pretty much be doing all language stuff: two languages and two linguistic
I'm a part of a small, local writer's group that grew out of some poetry readings at a coffee house in town, and it's been a lot of fun. It was a really informal thing, initially, where someone just started standing up at each reading and making an anouncement about wanting to meet and discuss writing. He had to make announcements at several readings, but eventually people found each other after a reading, set up a time, and we've been meeting pretty regularly ever since...
Your milage may vary, I suppose. But all the same, if you have the time, trying to start your own writer's group--or grow one from dormant seed--can be very rewarding.
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That being said . . . yeah, French and fiction writing are pretty much always options. But that is probably true of physics too. You have three (or more) more years.
If you did French, though, we could try to write each other letters or emails or something in French. I did that for a bit with a friend of mine and it was really neat - both expressing myself (haltingly) in a foreign language in a non-class setting, and the fact that I had to look up a lot of words and remember grammar and such. It would reinforce your learning and help me refresh my French, one of my myriad of low-priority goals.
On the other hand, if you did French . . . you would pretty much be doing all language stuff: two languages and two linguistic
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Your milage may vary, I suppose. But all the same, if you have the time, trying to start your own writer's group--or grow one from dormant seed--can be very rewarding.
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