<p>at my school, you have to take take Spanish 5 before AP, so AP Spanish is like Spanish 6!</p>
<p>At my old school (we don't have AP spanish at my school now), you have the choice of taking Spanish 5 or AP Spanish, and you need Spanish 4 for either of them.</p>
<p>Yup turtles and then one about school in some place in Argentina</p>
<p>ap langauge classes at my school are really small, most people have to drop because of schedule conflicts, in fact ap german only had 8 people, ap french only 15, and ap spanish only 30 (out of about 400-450 per class)</p>
<p>I am in Spanish 5 in my school, but we don't offer an AP Spanish class. Should I take the test anyway, or is it too hard to take without the actual AP class?</p>
<p>wow...what kind of Spanish teachers do you guys have? Our AP Spanish class is a year long...but getting a 2 on the test is considered really, really good. Most people just put their heads down during the exam and don't even try lol</p>
<p>flipchick you can easily take it after 5 yrs. of spanish. Last year everyone said it was deadly hard. Now everyone's saying it's super easy. I thought nationally it was relatively difficult to get a 5. And I know at my school half of the people don't even take the test (mind you these people include top 10 as well as top 5 and 10 %)</p>
<p>So, if I want to take the test and my school doesn't offer it, what do I have to do to take it? Also, where would I have to go to take it?</p>
<p>I'm bumping this thread.</p>
<p>find a school near you that offers it and sign up with them.</p>
<p>wow the test isn't even that hard wtf?</p>
<p>Can you read and write fluently? My teacher paid no attention to the test until 2 weeks before, we did some sample 20 second questions and that's it. I think 13 outta the 18 got 5s, 2 fours, 1 three, the other two got twos because they were just morons.</p>
<p>It's a matter of reading fluently and being able to listen as well. My advice to you would be stay in the class and just hang out with more spanish-speaking people. I remember we would only talk spanish for the period before and after, and before the test we all just spoke spanish to one another.</p>
<p>i took AP spanish and passed with a 3. At the time I spoke Spanish very well, and I am not pursuing it as my degree. The test is not very adequate, because instead of trying to test your ability to speak and understand spanish, they try to trick the tester. Many of the words they use are VERY VERY irregular. If you are in a situation where the test is not free, I would definetly CLEP instead if your college is offering it.</p>
<p>Non-native speaker. Spanish for 3 years, this is my 4th year - Spanish AP. It's mainly review of everything covered to really develop fluency and an easy command of the language. Our AP class is year-round and we're even meeting after school once a week. I've never heard of a Semester AP class. I think the test is going to be hard for non-native speakers. These posts I've been reading just scare me more... lol</p>
<p>"Many of the words they use are VERY VERY irregular."</p>
<p>Ummm no? If you spoke spanish all the time, those words are bound to come up. I remember when I had to speak into the tape recorder I stumbled when I read the banner @ the supermarket when the guy was entering it read something like: Prize for the 1,000,000th customer.... I didn't know how to say 1,000,000th but you find ways around it (cliente numero un millon or premio para el millon cliente). As for written words, my spanish class conjugated into about 15 tenses since spanish II. </p>
<p>Read Read Read... Go and read the unabridged version of Don Quijote and maybe Lazarillo de Tormes. If you're lazy watch spanish movies without the subtitles (not mexican or el savadorian ones though, I can't even understand wtf they say). </p>
<p>In my class, we wrote an essay a week on AP style topics. I used to always get 4s or 6s on my essays but I still got a 5 on the test. </p>
<p>For the part of the test where they play a narrative or w/e and you listen to it.... hopefully by the time of the test you won't need to be deciphering words; just absorb the main points of the story (this girl was born..... she did.... she liked it because...) you could even jot it down if you want to, but I wouldn't recommend it. </p>
<p>Know where the accent marks go. I remember the day before the test my teacher told us, "Oh! and there's this part with blanks and you need to fill in words and you have to include the accent" (we didn't use them in class). Aside from that... I mean there's not much else you could do. Just talk, read, write, and listen. Go over to a spanish person's house and see if you understand their mom or something (spanish party even).</p>
<p>I am a native speaker but I'm dominican so I don't speak with the letter S (think instead of esto or estamos, I say eto or etamo, or even tamo). so I basically had to learn spanish all over. Just stick with it and by the time the AP test comes, it'll be a joke.</p>