You could always move to France, or Montreal, or somewhere else where they speak mostly French, and be an English teacher. Cosmic how that works sometimes... I wish I had more of a knack for languages. I can remember vocabulary fairly well but the forms and grammar of anything other than english seem to elude me. By the way, I thought the image of someone being bi- or tri-lingual from birth was really funny. Just picturing a neonate spewing out sentences and then translating them back and forth between languages... Made me chuckle.

Congratulations on declaring a major though. That's a milestone or something.

I actually feel the exact same way as you do. I came into UVM as a history major thinking that I wanted to become a history teacher. Even though that is still a pretty good possibility, if i do end up changing my mind i feel like there isn't much to do with a major in history. THAT is why i just recently decided to change my major to public communications. Hopefully you figure out your situation though.

I just wanted to comment because your major does not have to be your career. Majoring in something like french is good because you could work as a translator in many different places or just go to graduate school in a completly diffent subject. For instance many history majors become lawyers. Your major is not what your life has to be.

You're lucky that at least you know what you like to do and could possibly see yourself doing that in the future. You could be in my boat where you have NO idea what you like or want to do for the rest of your life whatsoever.
I was also thinking about doing a major in some sort of language, but like you said, I wouldn't want to become a teacher. Do you like traveling at all? Because maybe being a teacher of english wouldn't be that bad. I mean going to South Korea with a pre-paid house and health care doesn't seem that bad. And I hear they pay really well! :)

I wanted to major in French, but I encountered the same issues. What good is a degree in a modern language? You can only teach and/or translate. To teach you would have to not kill your students. I would totally murder them. So that's out.

To translate you have to be willing to accept that the people you translate for will never view you as a real person and you will be little more than a body-temperature translation device. End of story. I like being a person.

So I am a chemistry major. I don't even really like science, but this way I can be a doctor and make lots of money, right? Then at least I can travel to France...