<p>I wanted to know your opinion on taking AP Spanish after Spanish 3. I would say I'm a pretty strong Spanish student, but I'm not a native speaker. How hard is it to skip straight to AP Spanish? I've heard that in Spanish 4, students mainly work on vocab and refine their grammar skills. I'm willing to put in the extra work in AP Spanish if need be, but have you all heard of others who have done this? How successful were they? BTW, I really like the Spanish language and feel it will be useful in life.</p>
<p>Talk to your Spanish teacher. Every school’s curriculum is different. At my school, kids take the AP test in their 4th year. </p>
<p>Our school normally requires Spanish 4 before AP, but my daughter skipped it. She had to work fairly hard in the first few months to catch up. Also, she watched a few movies in Spanish to help with that. I’m not sure I’d particularly recommend it. She did it because she felt she wasn’t learning much in Spanish 4 (the teacher was teaching the class in English), and she was fortunate to have really good teachers in 2 and 3 who prepared her well. She always likes to challenge herself and that particular Spanish 4 class didn’t meet her needs. </p>
<p>You do need to talk to the AP teacher. Hers was skeptical and only let her into the class because she had enthusiastic support from her counselor.</p>
<p>Okay. Thank you. My Spanish teacher really likes me, and I have a feeling that my counselor will approve, so I will definitely talk to them. For those of you who did take AP Spanish, how was the class? Did you feel prepared after Spanish 4?</p>
<p>Bump. Bump.</p>