<p>I want to take AP chinese and not take spanish or any other language in High School. I know how to talk fluently, pretty good at han yu ping ying, but is there hard stuff like poems. AP vs SAT II CHINESE?? A lot harder??</p>
<p>well this is the first year they offer this test so no one really knows...</p>
<p>I'd learn characters before approaching either of those tests if I were you.</p>
<p>Collegeboard released sample test questions from parts of the exam on apcentral.</p>
<p>if you are chinese= 5
if you are not chinese= 3 very very very good</p>
<p>oh, hmm, I did not know that this is the first year of AP chinese. Is there any preparation books on it though?</p>
<p>ya, I am chinese</p>
<p>no prep books available. but you can buy textbooks</p>
<p>yeah my mom is the AP chinese teacher in our school. she is just having her kids read like airline tickets, movie info, travel internaries, and things like that.</p>
<p>there arent any prep books available but most of the Chinese that is tested will be practical Chinese</p>
<p>hey owen, you know whats funny?
you said you're "pretty good at han yu ping ying"
but you spelled han yu pin yin wrong</p>
<p>hey douchois, you know whats funny?
it doesn't matter how you romanticize chinese words because there is no definite match between chinese sounds and the english alphabet</p>
<p>my bad, I hate writing english then going into han yu pin yin*. I didn't mean writing, I meant more of reading. I took parts of the SAT II Chinese and I just read the han yu pin yin because I didn't know all the characters and I did perfect.</p>
<p>Ivy hopeful: do you think I could get these textbooks at Barnes and Nobles? Well, thats a stupid question BAN has like everything. Just making sure though. Is there any textbooks you recommend?</p>
<p>Read the chinese newspapers. I have no idea where to get them but they're always in my mailbox.</p>
<p>oh, yes , newspapers, you can get them in the chinese supermarkets</p>
<p>Well I'd imagine the AP Chinese is harder. I say because I'm taking Japanese in school right now and I did decently on the SAT II (740) for a non-speaker and the AP is alot more complicated. (It even has a speaking/writing section!!) I've taken the SAT II Chinese as well and being a half assed speaker, guessing words using radicals, and can't write anything I still managed to get a 770. The multiple choice answers seemed really obvious. I imagine the AP Chinese will also include speaking and writing as well as culture stuff, etc. If you are a native speaker this shouldn't be a problem. If you're like me and can't really read/write for crap I would recommend the SAT II instead.</p>
<p>Grrrrr, nevermind, I accidentally misread, and started to blab about the SAT II. Grrrr.</p>
<p>Nevermind, You"re Taking The Ap</p>
<p>mpoon2489:
The word is 'romanize', not 'romanticize'. The latter was done by a bunch of Tang poets, however.</p>
<p>Anyone know whether the Chinese characters on the test are simplified or the traditional? The Chinese newspapers I've seen are all traditional characters.</p>