<p>Hey does anyone have any good to know/useful words or phrases that I should be familiar with for the AP Spanish exam? I want to learn some new ones to improve my speaking/writing before Tuesday! </p>
<p>Any other general tips for AP Spanish would be great! thanks</p>
<p>Tengo miedo de este examen…</p>
<p>adem</p>
<p>que chevere!
pues…</p>
<p>and that’s all i got. yeah, i’m so not passing this exam. i’m a little terrified of it actually</p>
<p>gracias!</p>
<p>yeah i’m pretty nervous, i hope listening and speaking don’t kick my butt</p>
<p>btw, does anyone have any good phrases to use for like the informal speaking that could be used, like a good way to greet or say goodbye to someone? I want to have some key phrases down that could be used in any situation so I can focus on the rest of the conversation!</p>
<p>tengo una confidenza rara de respeto con las partes de leer y escuchar. me preocupo mucho de las presentacio’nes orales. cuando practicabamos en clase, yo nunca podi’a limitar abajo de 2 minutos y no he tenido practica para la seccio’n informal.</p>
<p>necesito estudiar mucho las cosas como la conjugacio’n y tiempos?</p>
<p>A m</p>
<p>so…the fill in the blank where we need to conjugate verbs and stuff and then the random fill in the blank arent on the exam anymore right??
cuz then barrons isnt updated i guess??</p>
<p>no fill in the blank this year! we’re lucky lol
most of the review books aren’t updated, i think i have princeton 2009 and it still has it lol</p>
<p>tres dias antes del examen!! espero que yo pase con un 3 o 4</p>
<p>It is a good idea to use better vocabulary if you can use the words and phrases correctly. For example, many students use “es importante que” (“it is important that…”) but another good phrase to use is “es imprescindible que” (“it is essential that…”) which is similar in usage but uses more advanced vocabulary.</p>
<p>Lol, I’ve been writing 1-2 phrases on my hands to remember them.</p>
<p>tratar de= try to
no obstante= nevertheless
por lo tanto= therefore
desarrollar= develop
de hecho= in fact
en cambio= in contrast</p>
<p>si! estoy de acuerdo. me parece tonta cuando hablo. digo cosas como, “Estoy sorprendido”
I’m a female so that poses a problem. And the remaining 18 seconds or so it’s “Um…pues… pues tu sabes, um…”</p>
<p>ES HORRIBLE</p>
<p>tip for writing/speaking:
My problem with this section is that I never really know where to begin. That’s why it’s a REALLY GOOD IDEA to go into the test with a few grammatical structures in mind–i.e., conditional+imperfect subjunctive. So, when I couldn’t think of what to say, I just said something that started with, “si fueras un buen amigo…” o algo as</p>
<p>Well, I know in my class when we are doing the conversations as soon as it goes BEEP all you hear is “pues…” haha always a good one to know</p>
<p>mis esperas para sacar una buena nota en la ‘listening section’ estan basado en el hecho que no se doy dolor a personas hispanolablantes cuando hablo :). cuando mis amigos hablan, sonaban como tan gringos jajaja.</p>
<p>haha, same, when we practice speaking in class, as soon as the BEEP sounds everyone just goes “pues…es muy interesante…muy interesante…me gusta mucho…estoy bien…”</p>
<p>lol. in my class our teacher noticed we were doing the same things for the speaking sections (except for the native speakers, of course) so she made us grab index cards with random informal speaking prompts and talk for FORTY FIVE SECONDS at a time (we had to talk the whole time) then gave us similar formal speaking prompts that we had to answer IN FRONT OF THE WHOLE CLASS for the full allotted time - which were easily more intimidating than the freaking tape recorders. It was dreadful, but it really helped a lot. The tape recorders are nothing compared to that pain.</p>
<p>My whole class is super bummed that there’s no more fill-in-the-blank section 
I’d MUCH prefer that to any of the speaking sections.</p>
<p>does anyone know what percentage you can get and score a 4?
i know for some exams you can get a 60% and still get a 4 or a 5?
true for spanish language too?</p>
<p>My teacher told us that when we run out of things to say, we should just be like “¡Feliz Cinco de Mayo!”…and that maybe if the instructor is in a good mood, he/she will think it’s cute/a cultural reference/or something and be more generous in the grading…lolz</p>