French or Spanish? I genuinely cannot decide 😭
I need outside opinions because I’ve been going back and forth on this for WEEKS 😂. I’m an English speaker living in Texas and I want to become fluent in another language, but I only want to seriously focus on one at a time.
Spanish makes the most practical sense. I live in Texas and have definitely had situations where knowing Spanish would have been useful, including in healthcare. I’m Christian and would love to communicate with Spanish-speaking people at church, and I’d also love to eventually raise my children bilingual. My partner understands some Spanish and is very supportive of teaching our future kids Spanish.
But I am SO drawn to French.
I studied French in high school instead of Spanish, my grandmother spoke French, and I’ve always loved how French sounds. I also find it MUCH easier to immerse myself in French. I can easily find French music, R&B, cartoons, movies, GRWMs, etc. that I genuinely enjoy.
I can watch something like Cinderella or Beauty and the Beast in French and it somehow feels completely natural to me 😂. Spanish versions of those same movies weirdly don’t hit the same.
Travel is another factor. I’m going to Monaco soon and would love to visit France and other Francophone countries. I’m less interested in traveling throughout Latin America, although Spain is definitely on my list.
The frustrating part is that I want both. 😭 I can picture myself speaking Spanish and love the practicality of it, but French has this emotional/aesthetic pull that Spanish hasn’t quite matched.
I’m currently thinking Spanish → B2/C1 → French, but I’m scared that after 1–2 years of Spanish I’ll just fall completely back in love with French. 😂
For people who have learned both: which would you choose first, and why? And did one language eventually become more “you” than the other?