<p>Can I choose a new language to study? I don't have to stick with the language I learned throughout highschool? I'd love to learn arabic, latin, or greek because I'll probably never have that chance again.</p>
<p>How does that effect the language placement test if I want to start at a beginning of a different language?</p>
<p>I think you start off at the 101 level if you haven’t taken in high school, and haven’t taken a placement test. Also, as a future Classics major, I will put a plug in for Latin. Carolina has one of the best Classics departments in the country, and learning Latin will help you with learning Romance Languages (though it will kill your pronunciation of them. My Spanish teacher wants to murder me because I pronounce words like “vivir” as “wiwir”) Also, reading Virgil in the original Latin takes a fair amount of critical thinking skills, which will help you in other classes.</p>
<p>You still have to take the language placement test of your high school language. But you never have to take that language. I took Spanish and High school and started off in Hindi 101.</p>
<p>How will that effect the amount of classes that you have to take? Will you have to take more than the usual 3-4 or will the 101 class not count as a credit?</p>
<p>Think about languages. If you only could continue what you took in HS, offerings would be limited for most. The 101 level classes receive credit, but they will probably move a bit faster than high shool and may be taught differently depending on the language. You will start where you need to and you may have students in the 101 class who took the language all through HS looking for an easy grade.</p>