French or Spanish: Which Language Will Win Over the Babes?

[WiFO215]

I'm interested in learning a new language simply for the sake of knowing one apart from English. I've heard much about French and Spanish, but cannot choose which one to learn.

I'm guessing that Spanish would be more useful in the US seeing that there are so many who speak it. I'm tempted to learn French simply to read the original Asterix comics (I LOVE these!). From a practical point of view, it looks like Spanish, but here is the clincher:

Which ones do the babes dig more?

This will be the deciding factor.

Please and Thank you.

 

[Astronuc]

Learn both.

 

[Evo]

French is associated with being a more refined, cultured language and sounds beautiful.

 

[flyingpig]

German

 

[jtbell]

sounds beautiful.

Provided you get the accent right!

Actually, if you can manage to learn to speak English with a good French accent, that would probably work almost as well in impressing babes.

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

If you want to attract the babes in my neighborhood you'd better learn English.

 

[bp_psy]

Which ones do the babes dig more?

This will be the deciding factor.

Please and Thank you.

Learn French with a Quebec accent. The chicks will drop like flies. Trust me.

 

[WiFO215]

I would love to go ahead and learn both, but unfortunately, I am pressed for time. Maybe I shall do so some time in the future.

I did even consider German because I've been told it's similar to English. However, it sounds clunky and has these gutteral noises which would probably scare people away. For instance. when they pronounce "rauchen". The 'r' and the 'ch' are from the depths of your throat. Sounds so odd.

If you want to attract the babes in my neighborhood you'd better learn English.

 

[Containment]

I say French so you can pick up some nice dates. Who's really going to want to date someone who just speaks Spanish.

 

[Oldfart]

Hot spanish chickitos...

 

[MarcoD]

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse. --Charles V

 

[daveyrocket]

I spent time learning French, Spanish and German. What I found was that it was a lot of fun when I had someone who was fluent in the language I was learning that I could talk to. But when I didn't have anyone to speak the language with, it was no fun to continue studying it. So my advice is to pick the language that you can practice and converse with people around you in. If you live in the western U.S. like me, that's probably Spanish.

 

[lenell]

I took French in college. It was really nice to hear a guy speak French poetry to me in language lab. By the way, I am a girl--I chose lenell because it was on a cookie tin next to me when I signed up.

 

[Evo]

I took French in college. It was really nice to hear a guy speak French poetry to me in language lab. By the way, I am a girl--I chose lenell because it was on a cookie tin next to me when I signed up.

Welcome to the forum lenell! We all have stories about our names, and they're not all good.

I'm partial to hearing a certain member here speak French in a very deep, sultry voice.

I'm suprised my phone didn't melt.

 

[DoggerDan]

If you want to attract the babes in my neighborhood you'd better learn English.

I'd have to give this a +1.

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

I've told this story before, but here goes again. I was out one evening in Nazereth, Israel with a young lady from Turkey. We were stopped by a police officer who asked us what we were doing. Neither of us spoke Hebrew well enough to converse with him and he asked if we spoke French. She did and so she told him something like 'Nous en fait une promenade" (someone who speaks French can fix that up for me). It struck me as a very romantic way to say "We're taking a walk."

 

[WiFO215]

Gosh! Nearly everyone here is leaning towards French.

I'll be learning along with a friend of mine, so we'd converse with each other. We could find some place where we could talk to people who already know the language. Indeed, that is a good suggestion.

 

[kcajrenreb]

French is a great language to learn. I'm currently in the process of learning it. I'd recommend French.

 

[SW VandeCarr]

Which ones do the babes dig more?

This will be the deciding factor.

Please and Thank you.

If you want to attract women, learn Italian. Women love well spoken Italian. It also helps if you drive a Ferrari.

 

[bp_psy]

If you want to attract women, learn Italian. Women love well spoken Italian. It also helps if you drive a Ferrari.

With a Ferrari you can skip learning Italian.

 

[SW VandeCarr]

With a Ferrari you can skip learning Italian.

Probably true, but if you are young and can speak Italian well, you might appear more likely to belong in a Ferrari (as opposed to being an errant parking valet joyriding while the owner is gambling in the casino.)

 

[Newai]

Maybe you could learn a dozen words and phrases in both and observe which ones you turn to in your thoughts throughout a period of time (days/weeks/however long you have).

 

[skeptic2]

I'm interested in learning a new language simply for the sake of knowing one apart from English. I've heard much about French and Spanish, but cannot choose which one to learn.

I'm guessing that Spanish would be more useful in the US seeing that there are so many who speak it. I'm tempted to learn French simply to read the original Asterix comics (I LOVE these!). From a practical point of view, it looks like Spanish, but here is the clincher:

Which ones do the babes dig more?

This will be the deciding factor.

Please and Thank you.

So your desire to learn another language is not solely for the sake of knowing one apart from English but to attract the babes. The consensus seems to be that French will make you more attractive to the babes but possibly any babe that would be impressed by a few french phrases mixed in a conversation wouldn't be worth your time. Evo, would you be impressed by someone who threw out a few french phrases or even by someone who could order a meal in French?

I learned Spanish while living in the U.S. During the time I was learning, I only listened to Spanish language radio and only watched television in Spanish. Doing this everyday helps develop an ear for the language. It helps develop the rhythm of speech and the accent and even teaches you common slang that they won't teach you in class. I think in most places in the U.S. this would be difficult to do with French. Furthermore, I think Spanish is easier to learn from English than French. Spanish pronunciation is closer to English.

You should also take night courses where you can ask questions of the instructor. Many times I ran into usage I could not understand and needed someone to explain it to me. For example, if in Spanish you say, "Substitute A for B." it means use B in place of A.

Lastly, learning a foreign language well while living in the U.S. and associating only with English speakers is much, much harder than any of the courses would have you believe. It will be very difficult not to lose interest when it seems you aren't making any progress.

 

[Evo]

So your desire to learn another language is not solely for the sake of knowing one apart from English but to attract the babes. The consensus seems to be that French will make you more attractive to the babes but possibly any babe that would be impressed by a few french phrases mixed in a conversation wouldn't be worth your time. Evo, would you be impressed by someone who threw out a few french phrases or even by someone who could order a meal in French?

If it's between Spanish and French, yeah, I'd be more impressed by a knowledge of French. French, Spanish and Italian are all very similar. But French is lilting, and soft, and elegant, Italian is second, Spanish, of the three, is third.

Having been born and raised in Houston, TX, I had to learn Spanish, perhaps that is why it does nothing for me.

As far as business, if you plan to work in the southern part of the US, you should learn Spanish. If you plan to work in the northern US or internationally, French and English are your best bets.

 

[lompocus]

Communicate either with several hundred million spread across the world or a billion focused in two places. I'd pick (and picked up :P... the subtle pun you see there is, sadly, not applicable to me :P:P) the latter, you might prefer the former. However, why not challenge yourself and pick up Japanese? I think it fits your sole requirement perfectly!

 

[Jobrag]

Learn Spanish, if you try to speak French in France, unless you are perfect at it the French will ignore you and pretend any thing you say is incomprehensible rubbish, if you speak bad Spanish in Spain they are so delighted that you took the effort they'll take you home and let you sleep with their daughter.

 

[Loren Booda]

Of German genders, a knife is masculine (a phallus), a fork is feminine (a French invention with leg-like tines) and the spoon is neuter (the first utensil a child uses, also Freud considers children as neuter in early stages of development).

 

[SW VandeCarr]

In French the eyes are masculine but the eyelids are feminine. Isn't that cute?

 

[Jobrag]

In French the vagina is masculine, how screwed up is that!

 

[SW VandeCarr]

In French the vagina is masculine, how screwed up is that!

Yeah. You better be careful about picking up "babes" using French. You might get what you ask for.

 

[WiFO215]

Looks like I'll get started with French then. :) Let's see how it turns out.

 

[Zantra]

Forget the Ferrari and learn the french. Women will melt, and it endear you to France,and you'll be compelled to follow in Hemmingway's footsteps, meet amd fall in love with a beautiful young french girl you meet in the Jardins du Luxembourg. She will promise to love you always, but later break your heart when you both realize a bi-continental long distance relationship won't work. You'll briefly consider moving to Paris permanently then realize that Paris isn't as cheap as Hemmingway made it sound in the 20's-especially on a student's meager earnings- so you'll be forced to part ways leaving half your heart on Pont Neuf where you say your tearful goodbyes. You will leave half of your heart there on the bridge, and the warm mixture of sadness and joy you'll feel as you watch the girl blend into the crowd will stay with you the rest of your life, long after you've married and had children...

Ya...something like that..




Or you can learn spanish, order some beers, and find out what a donkey show is in Tijuana;)

As the Merovingian said, "I love speaking french-It's like wiping your arse with silk"