<p>trickysocksman -- don't let me influence your thoughts of average people taking this exam. I'm more obsessed with foreign languages than you can possibly believe. :) As a nonnative, getting a 4 on that exam is really good. (I had been hoping for a 4 at best).</p>
<p>I try to avoid the other threads... they're quite intimidating and I like thinking that I'm smart. ;) </p>
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oh well. my quest for a 7 in sl begins now. can anyone tell me how hard that is relatively considering how i did on ap?
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<p>I'm confused (I'll blame it on the fact that it's 4 in the morning here). sl?</p>
<p>hmm. ib standard level. i think i refer to it much to colloquially. </p>
<p>hmm, since paper 2 for sl is really really easy, and paper 1 is a little... strange, since it asks easy questions and asks you to look for synonyms. does anyone know how hard a 7 on that is?</p>
<p>I got a 5 as a non-native speaker and I've come to the conclusion that with the AP Spanish test, your success has a lot to do with whether or not you're naturally good at the language. For people who struggle to pick up on things like listening comp, there's not much you can do to improve except practice excessively.</p>
<p>I got a 5 as a non-native speaker, which was really surprising to me since i had heard that it was extremely difficult. Just study hard and you can do it</p>
<p>My son got a 5 as a non-native speaker. I don't think he studied for it, particularly -- but he's been practicing speaking and listening to Spanish for years now, simply because he enjoys it. (He speaks it to me all the time, even though I don't understand a word!) I think he realized when he was in Mexico City on vacation in the summer of 2007 that he could communicate with people fluently, and that helped his self-confidence a great deal. We were just in Rome on vacation, and he was actually able to use his knowledge of Spanish to talk to people, and picked up quite a bit of Italian in only a couple of weeks -- they're really quite similar in many ways, but I do think he has a natural talent for languages.</p>
<p>I received a 5 as a non-native speaker on the test, as did another student in my class. Last year, there were about 3 or 4 5s from non-native speakers. I think it all depends on how easily you can pick up the language. I mean for some people learning a language is a hard thing, and I don't think any amount of studying can change that.</p>
<p>i got a 5 and i'm non-native as well. i thought the test was ridiculously difficult but somehow i succeeded... i just have a passion for spanish. and i'm pretty good at it. so if you're the same way, you'll be fine!</p>