<p>Next year, I'm going to take Spanish IV AP.</p>
<p>I think during the summer I'm going to take either Japanese or French at the community college where my dad lives. Do you think this class, and extra outside practice will prepare me enough for the French or Japanese AP test in the following testing time (Spring 2007)? Would the Japanese AP be easier because it is the first occurence? Or no... :-) lol</p>
<p>I highly doubt you will be ready to take an AP test with only one class and independent study.</p>
<p>Would it be enough to take a credit-by-exam for years 1 and 2 for the language?</p>
<p>the typical junior college class is essentially equivalent to the first two years of HS language, so, no, not ready for the AP test, probably not even with a lot of self-study.</p>
<p>So I'm better off just learning Swedish on the side?</p>
<p>I think I'll just self-study Japanese from the textbook our district uses, and test out of high school levels 1 and 2.</p>
<p>I heard the French AP is extremely hard.
No one at my school (with 5 and a half years of French starting in 7th grade up to AP in senior yr) has gotten a 5 on the test in the past 3 years I believe</p>
<p>Oh, wow. I didn't know the French AP was THAT difficult...</p>
<p>my understanding is that the AP language tests are very difficult -- even native speakers need to work hard and study to get a 5 (and some only get a 3 or 4)</p>
<p>Officially, the AP foreign language tests are to test a student at the level of a second year college student -- that is after 4 semesters at the college level.</p>
<p>a semester of college language is roughly equivalent to a year of foreign language instruction at the high school level -- this is why kids with A's in French after 5 years don't have an easy time scoring a 5!</p>
<p>A one semester course during the summer would most likely be equivalent to a one year in high school (provided you really studied -- the summer pace is fast and it is easy to miss concepts).</p>
<p>you are better off to continue a language you have already started, or get a jump start on one you plan to take in college -- however, i you plan to start a new language in college, don't skip ahead to a higher level. that is setting yourself up for failure! many kids in first year language courses (spanish 101, french 101, etc) have already had a year or more of the language.</p>
<p>hope that helped!</p>
<p>Yes, it helped.</p>