UGHHHH!!! So I am taking I started college this semester and one of my classes is French. I tried to learn it in high school, to say the least I failed. My teachers kept on telling me, "Blaahh.. Blah... you need to know French to do anything outside of the United States or Britian... Blah... Blah... you need to know French to be in academia..." So apparently French is the "Lingua Franca" and has been since the 16th century. How could history have been different so I wouldn't need to know French, but a different language. French just has too many irregularities... how dare they say English took a lot of words from French. On a different note... how do you tolerate learning French...?