<p>I'm taking AP Spanish Language as a senior next year. However, I am afraid of the doom that awaits me. Right now, even in my Spanish III honors class, we only cover a little more than half of the textbook, and I am still having trouble translating a passage with some advanced vocabulary sin la ayuda de un diccionario.</p>
<p>?Podre yo obtener un cinco en el examen?</p>
<p>I’m taking it now. If you’re not hispanic, you’re gunna have trouble getting a 5. On practice tests given by my teacher, I generally get 4s, and I speak spanish pretty well.</p>
<p>For the test, you have to write a 250 word essay (you use three resources, sorta like DBQs in APUSH), make a 2 minute presentation into a recording device, have a simulated conversation with a recording device, answer questions from a reading passage, and answer questions about a presentation and dialogue. It tests speaking, listening, reading comprehension, and writing. So you have to speak spanish well. </p>
<p>Can you read a novel in spanish? Is your teacher good (can he/she speak spanish)? (I can and my teacher is good, but I still have trouble acing the test)</p>
<p>My teacher is a native speaker from Spain, but my problem is that we go slow with out textbooks that I probably won’t learn all the grammar I need by the end of this year.</p>
<p>Learning the grammar is no problem for me, but the higher level vocab is what’s killing me at times.</p>
<p>I’m having the same problem! My class moves slow so we don’t cover a lot of vocab. It doesn’t really affect anyone else because they are all native speakers, but it doesn’t help a gringa like me! lol</p>