<p>Is anyone taking AP Chinese next year? It's going to be the first AP Chinese test college board will offer. I won't have a class to study from, so I plan to self study it. I was born in China, but moved to the US when I was 4, so my Chinese is not exactly top knotch, but I can read the simple stuff. What prep book should I use? Is there a text book out there?</p>
<p>there is no specific books for this course yet. you probably just have to wait until next year for them to be published. as for how hard, most people don't know. but i think its probably going to be like the level of English Language and Composition (but in Chinese) just like how I heard Spanish Language and German Language was. It really boils down to what you perceive your level as, but, seeing that you came from China at age 4, your Chinese is probably the same as native-born American Chinese who speak Chinese at home.</p>
<p>Hey, I moved from China when I was 7 and I suck at. I can speak and listen pretty fluently (with Sichuan accent!), but my vocabulary/writing stink, with my reading skills a bit better.</p>
<p>I won't take the test simply because I'll die.</p>
<p>i moved from China 2 years ago</p>
<p>lol, i'm not going to take it,
coz i have AP French and AP Spanish Next year</p>
<p>I've never lived in China and I don't understand any Chinese.</p>
<p>SIGN ME UP!</p>
<p>I'm taking it as well as the subject test, I need to really brush up on my characters.
For practice, I'm going to just read some newspapers, books, or really anything in chinese.</p>
<p>And if you really have a thick accent (sichuan isn't that bad, or at least the one I've heard), you should start assigning pinyin or bopomofo to charactes to straighten your pronunciation out.</p>
<p>"but i think its probably going to be like the level of English Language and Composition (but in Chinese) just like how I heard Spanish Language and German Language was. "</p>
<p>Spanish language is MUCH easier of a test than English language assuming the same degree of proficiency in each language. The Spanish language test simply measures your ablility to communicate and understand the language, English tests analytical ability, writing skills, knowledge of rhetorical devices, etc. I would assume Chinese Language will be along the mold of Spanish language because there is no way(except possibly by a complete immersion program) a nonnative speaker could get to the level of proficiency needed in a test like English language in the course of high school.</p>
<p>No, I can speak putonghua without any trouble. I just wanted to express how I could still do Sichuan accent.</p>
<p>the english language test is pretty damn hard... i can't imagine CB testing a foreign language with test that hard</p>
<p>i'm pretty sure it won't be like english language. but definitely more like spanish language & french. it's definitely possible to get a 5 on if you aren't a native speaker but it'd just be really easy for native speakers. also, knowing how majority of asians taking APs are overachievers, there won't be much of a curve.</p>
<p>i hate being chinese but speaking a dialect no one has ever heard of. it's so obscure, there isn't even a NAME for it in english.</p>
<p>Where in China is the dialect located? I'm sure all dialects have a name, they usually just attach an "nese/ese" at the end of the city's name of its origin.</p>
<p>It's definitely like other foreign language tests:</p>
<p>So will AP Chinese be testing Chinese history too?</p>
<p>Is there a speaking portion to the AP Chinese test? I can read/write Chinese kind of fluently but I speak Cantonese...and I know the AP test is based off mandarin...no fair.</p>
<p>click on my link, it gives the basic contents of the test.</p>
<p>And yes there's a speaking part, it's in mandarin.</p>
<p>I read it and part of the ruberic tells the teacher to start by teaching the students some chinese history. Does that mean there will be history on the exam?</p>
<p>If i take the test, i ll get a 5. anyone wanna bet?</p>
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<p>It's a foreign language test just like spanish, french, german, etc, the main focus is the language ability, there is apparently "culture."</p>
<p>On pages 9 and 10, there is an exam outline.</p>
<p>Even thouugh Ap chinese is going to be official next year, relativlely few schools offer and recognize it as a boost to your GPA. (High schools)</p>
<p>Yeah dude. My school is picking a few native speakers to "test out" AP Chinese so I get to take the test "for fun" come May.</p>
<p>If the SAT Subjects tests provide any guidelines, the AP Chinese won't be at the level of AP French nor Spanish. Since the SAT Chinese tests students at a level of 3 or 4th grade level, the AP will probably will be a 5th grade level for native Chinese. </p>
<p>One has to wonder why this was ever considered, let alone approved. Jocular aberrations such as this one is what makes being a supporter of the integrity of The College Board harder by the week.</p>