Serious Question. Is the French language worth learning? I don't think it is, my wife however does. I think it is because of the way it sounds

It is a pity Americans basically reject other languages.

Many/most Europeans and other areas in the world, can speak several languages, including English.

Better to start with Russian. It is actually very sofisticated language, and it increases brain level alot.
And Russian culture are bigger then French.
Then go to Latin. This is the way to open science and cultural basis to Western Civilisation. And French language are dying, 10 years ahead therу will be arabic as second State language in France.

It's the path of least resistance for Americans. Why learn another language? Most never leave the States. If we do, what, for a few weeks? So, spend all that time and effort to order food?

Europe is a different matter. Learning another language is almost a necessity if you plan on traveling a couple hundred miles in any direction!

I would recommend Arabic or Mandarin. Those will become standard in America if Obama gets his way.

I grew up bilingual. I now speak six languages and can muddle through many more if they're in the same language groups.

It may not be the case in Minnesota, but in places like New York there are often well-paying, hard-to-fill jobs available for people who speak the less popular languages like French and German. We can never predict where we will end up in life and languages simply give us more options.

Once you've learned French it becomes easy to learn Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Italian and Romanian.

I met a couple in Spain who were both educated in a language other than Spanish; the wife went to a school taught by Irish nuns and the husband went to a French school where all subjects were taught in French and Spanish language and grammar was just one of the subjects. He told me that when they sat for national exams (all in Spanish) the pupils from his school got some of the highest scores--even in Spanish grammar! He was also one of the fastest English students I had ever had. He had to learn it fast because he had been hired by an American company and he simply sailed through the beginner's English book.

There are English people here in France who emigrated with their children who then became bilingual. As adults, some of these kids went back to the UK and got great jobs due to their complete familiarity with spoken and written French as well as an understanding of the French way of doing things.

Canada demands bilingualism even in predominantly Anglophone provinces outside Quebec.

Drink 2 bottles of wine then stick marbles and cum in your mouth and you will get the same effect.

as for the use I do the french language, I would bart it for any other language. Nice language but quite irrelevant outside cuktural interest.

Maybe once Africa will start to become center of economy in the next 10/20 years at least, French could be useful to use in colonies.

But actually africans are learning chinese

so go for CHINESE, folowed by russian,spanish and arabic.

Then if you are looking for languages that shape the brain to be lernt at small age. Indi or Italian

Indi for mathematic and computer/science and italian for problem solving and free thinking

Spanish is a good entrance for South America, California (soon) and a few Europe countries. French use to be an elite language in the 19th century when Paris was the place to be seen for intellectuals and artists but not anymore.

Another anti-French bigot. What a shock.

The main reason to parlance is to communicate.

Who do you want to communicate with?

French is similar to other Latin based languages and learning it will enhance your overall language comprehension... Even in English.

Just my two cents.

Bilingual people tend to have higher IQs..

German is very easy to learn for Americans, as English is based on German. The 2 languages while sounding very different are actually so similar that it takes only a matter of weeks to learn German. About half of the words are the same as in English. French is also similar to German and English, so knowing both languages makes it easier to learn French.
But French is a very hard language to learn, the pronunciation is very hard, there are lots of special characters in the alphabet, the grammar doesn't make any sense. I studied it for years in high school and can't speak, only read. French is useful in Africa, as half of the continent speaks it. I was in RDC recently and wished my French was good, as few people know English there.

If your first concern is down to earth usefulness then Chinese, Russian, Spanish, Hebrew, Hindi should probably come before French.

Otherwise, below some quotes about French language after a quick search:

“Boy, those French! They have a different word for everything.”
Steve Martin

“Speak in French when you can’t think of the English for a thing--
turn your toes out when you walk---
And remember who you are!”
Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass

French is a language that makes those who speak it both calm and dynamic.
Author: Bernard Pivot

If French is no longer the language of a power, it can be the language of a counter power.
Author: Lionel Jospin

The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint.
Author: Lytton Strachey

The French, it seems to me, strike a happy balance between intimacy and reserve. Some of this must be helped by the language, which lends itself to graceful expression even when dealing with fairly basic subjects.... And there's that famously elegant subtitle from a classic Western.COWBOY: "Gimme a shot of red-eye."SUBTITLE: "Un Dubonnet, s'il vous plait."No wonder French was the language of diplomacy for all those years.
Author: Peter Mayle

You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a more cultivated, more intelligent world, more highly civilised too, with rules.
Bernard Pivot

I love the French language... it's a delightful language, especially to curse with. It's like whopping your ass with silk.
Oscar Wilde

One thing I can say about the French language is that no one in the world loves their language as much as they do.
Mads Mikkelsen

A French politician once wrote that it was a peculiarity of the French language that in it words occur in the order in which one thinks them.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

To achieve the very pinnacle of good taste, the neoclassicists wrote their plays entirely in alexandrine verse, a rarefied meter that is uniquely tailored to the French language and fits no other.
Florence King

In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English.
Victor Hugo

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.
Stephen King

For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language.
Fabrice Luchini

Italian is the language of song. German is good for philosophy and English for poetry. French is best at precision; it has a rigour to it.
Maurice Druon

German poetry is going in a very different direction from French poetry.... Its language has become more sober, more factual. It distrusts "beauty." It tries to be truthful.
Paul Celan