<p>I'm not. I'm Chinese and I go to Chinese school, but I'm still not good enough to do the AP Chinese exam. In fact, my Spanish is WAY better than my Chinese is that I'm confident I'll do well on the AP Spanish IV Lang. exam...which is sort of shameful I guess considering that I'm Chinese. What about you bilingual CCers out there? ;o</p>
<p>No, I am not taking AP Chinese exam. I feel that if I chose to take it, I would be taking advantage of the system.</p>
<p>I’m not bilingual, but I think colleges would think that ‘my’ language is Korean, since I’m Korean (I don’t think I can tell them that I’m adopted until the Essays).</p>
<p>I want to learn Korean, and probably will take some form of test grading my level of Korean.</p>
<p>I want to take the AP exam (for languages) in Spanish, Japanese, maybe Chinese and maybe Hebrew.</p>
<p>That’s like me taking the TOEFL. Why?</p>
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<p>Actually, if you wanted to attend a school in a different country that has a curriculum in English, they might want you to prove that you’re fluent in English (or take their native language test). I think you could take the SAT to show that you’re fluent in English, but I know that the TOEFL is an option.</p>
<p>HAHAHAH i wish! i’m bilingual…but they dont offer the languages i can speak :(</p>
<p>lol good point there happysunshine. it would definitely seem really cheap to the colleges.</p>
<p>lol, I’m taking IB Spanish HL. Though it’s not really an option to not take it in the IB program in my school. Still the teacher is like “I expect 7s or higher!”</p>
<p>I did take the SAT subject test in spanish, easiest thing ever. But it was kinda like “you have to take 3” and I only cared about physics and math so wasn’t all that big on the other. They also offered me the AP test though I’ve never taken a Spanish AP class, I had other things to do that day though.</p>
<p>I heard the AP chinese exam is waaaaaaaaaaaaay easy though for a native speaker. Like, alphabet or something.</p>
<p>it’s easy for listening and speaking, but definitely not the writing/typing part…that part is hell because chinese grammar is hella difficult.</p>
<p>oh, so the sat sub. tests are easier than AP?</p>
<p>^That’s what I’ve heard all around, plus no essays for Sciences and Histories.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, they don’t offer the AP exam in my mother tongue! :(</p>
<p>the AP korean sample questions on collegeboard made me laugh</p>
<p>and then I realized native spanish speakers must be laughing at people like me who think we can learn spanish within four years time.</p>
<p>^ actually you can learn a language within a year, but not in the classroom setting. Its the natural way you learned your native language type of way to learn it that fast.</p>
<p>^ I second that.</p>
<p>the guy who owns ajatt learned Japanese in 18 months, from nothing to native. he works in japan as IT…</p>
<p>Classrooms just make you learn a language 10x slower.</p>
<p>I’m going to learn Japanese and Korean, and Spanish in school.</p>
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<p>But one cannot learn a second language at this point in one’s life the way one learned one’s native language. Teens and adults do not possess certain language acquisition capabilities that young children do.</p>
<p>If you “forget” your native language, and spend 1-2 years in another country surrounded by that language all the time, you’ll become fluent. You also have to be trying to acquire that language. But you can learn another language with 2 years.</p>
<p>I took the Chinese AP exam for fun… mostly because at the time I’ve never taken an AP exam before and thought it would be cool to give it a try. Thank goodness for the AP exam, you only have to type out the essays instead of having to write them by hand.</p>
<p>@Millancad: you’ll be surprised at how fast people can learn another language when they’re under the pressure ;).</p>
<p>No AP test for Greek = /.</p>
<p>@olleger</p>
<p>aw that sucks. yeah, i think collegeboard should make more AP foreign language exams for other languages</p>