<p>I’m taking the AP Spanish exam so yes. But I’m shoddy on the grammatics of it so I’m still nervous about essay construction.</p>
<p>Well, I’m planning to sell myself as a language person on my app, so I’m going to be taking the AP Chinese Language exam this May, along with a couple of others. I might also take the Chinese SAT II.</p>
<p>@Millancad</p>
<p>Actually no, children learn a language because their forced and have nothing else to do. Teens and adults can learn a language faster then a child because they have a better developed brain. Also their very busy, so learning a language always gets put last, and takes longer. If they were forced to learn it and have nothing to do like a child, they would learn it faster then say a 5 year old.</p>
<p>^ actually, children learn faster, it’s been proven</p>
<p>No chinese at my school. 
And I’m canto not mando.</p>
<p>To some extent, I agree with the people asserting that young children can learn languages faster. I was in an exclusively bilingual family environment until the age of 8, when I became first exposed to French (I was sent to a public elementary school in Montreal for 3rd grade). During the one year I was there, I went from knowing almost nothing about French to being completely fluent, even going so far as to acquire the native accent and perfect pronunciation. By the time I left Montreal, I could also write a considerable amount of things (i.e. stories, etc.) with near perfect French grammar and spelling. I guess it also helped that my dad bought me a French dictionary at the beginning of the year so that I could look up everything I didn’t understand, but my point is that I doubt I could repeat the same feat right now – going from knowing nothing about a relatively complex language, from a different language family than those I’d been exposed to (Romance, as opposed to Germanic [English] and Sino-Tibetan [Mandarin Chinese]), to mastering it in a year.</p>