<p>Hi, I'm planning on taking AP Spanish and AP Chinese next year as a sophomore.
-Regarding AP Chinese, I felt that I wasn't ready for AP Chinese as a freshman, I decided to take a year of Chinese 4 to prepare myself. Unfortunately, I was put into mixed 3/4 class, so I'm not sure if I would be ready. From what I've heard though, the class is not that hard. I'm a native speaker of a different dialect of Chinese (though admittedly, my English is much better).
-Regarding AP Spanish, I take Spanish 3 currently. I wasn't planning on taking AP Spanish, but our teacher asked our class if we wanted to take the placement test, and I somehow got in. I could decide to take Spanish 4 next year, but this planning frees up room for me to take an extra class in later years.
-I know that the languages by themselves wouldn't be that difficult, but if I did take both, I'm would not be sure on how to prepare. I planned on immersing myself in Chinese this summer, then Spanish the next, but then this happened, and I'm not sure what to do. I've found a few dubs of shows that I like in both languages. Our house has some television in Mandarin, and I know a few Spanish radio and tv stations. There's a plethora of songs in both languages that can be found on youtube. However, I'm not sure if I can handle immersion of two languages in the same time, unless I shut out English, and I probably can't do so.
-All in all, the pros (opportunity to take another class, faster advancement in language tracks, ap credit, less stress in later years) outweigh the cons (lots of stress next year, ongoing confusion), but I'd really like to hear some feedback! :)
Oh, I'm also planning on taking AP Chemistry, AP Physics 1, and Precalculus next year, so that will add to my stress. </p>
<p>The best advice I can give would be to for you to go to college board and try some practice questions from the AP exams.</p>
<p>I’ll do that, thanks! I’d better start preparing now! </p>
<p>Do you like languages? I think it’s cool that you are taking two languages. Very few people at my school do that, not any that I know.</p>
<p>They are vastly different - an issue that some kids have with dual enrolling in language courses is they often confuse things they learn between the two. As far as I know, Chinese is very different from Spanish so that wouldn’t be an issue. I’m not entirely sure how eastern languages are taught, my only concern for you is that you may get very bored learning lots of vocabulary and grammar in two languages (and three, for the case of English!) But if you enjoy that sort of thing, that’s not an issue.</p>
<p>Go for it if you think you can handle it. If you have done well previously in these language courses it’s a great idea, to be honest. Trilingualism is very useful, especially in some of the two most important languages in American “business”, Spanish and Chinese. Great skills to have.</p>
<p>^The key issue here is that it is very likely that OP hasn’t been taught the information that is needed before even taking an AP Language.</p>
<p>@Ctesiphon
I like languages a lot! I have four friends who also take two languages at my school. There are probably more, but I just haven’t been acquainted with them yet.
They are pretty different, which is one of the reasons I decided to start learning both in 9th grade. I’m not sure if I’ll get bored, but I guess I might. I’ve been playing around with articles, shows, and music in both languages, and I’ll find that maybe there’s one or two words that I don’t know in a sentence, but I can get a general gist. I’ll often keep google translate open in another tab to look up words, and it’s so rewarding to just look at the meaning and think, “That makes so much sense!” I hope that I can keep it up and improve.
Thanks for all the encouragement! 
I’m still not quite sure if I can handle it, and I’m using my few weeks before class scheduling is finalized to try to decide. I know, especially nowadays, that languages are important. I’m trying to squeeze stuff in while my brain is still absorbent, haha.</p>
<p>@Apollo11
You’re right! I still feel rather unprepared. I’ve been talking to some friends, and one told me that the kids who jumped from 3 to AP did fine, but most felt as if they could have been better prepared. I’m still rather uncertain about, well, everything! I know that I still have a ton of room for improvement, and reading these replies have really helped me think about the whole of my language learning timeline. Thanks a bunch!</p>