Common Application Language help?

Applying to College
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<p>I don't know whether one not to write the languages I speak on the common app. What's your opinion?</p>

<p>English:
Fluent. 17 years Experience (lol)</p>

<p>Spanish:
6 years
Spoken, Read and Written
NOT FLUENT
Intermediate---Advanced level.</p>

<p>Japanese:
2 Years
Spoken (Limited)
Written (Katakana an Hiragana)
Read (Very Limited)
NOT FLUENT
Beginner -- Intermediate</p>

<p>I'm not sure if my college of choice, Stanford will give me a proficiency exam so I am a bit shaky on what to write... Please help!</p>

2

<p>Bump…
…</p>

3

<p>I think it’s best if you wrote English as your prominent language, since you’ve 17 years English. And since this is Stanford is an American college, it’ll definitely be beneficial.</p>

4

<p>But what do you think of the foreign languages?</p>

5

<p>Unless you’ve spent a significant amount of time in a Spanish speaking country, your Spanish is probably intermediate. Japanese is beginning at best, definitely not intermediate.</p>

6

<p>So then it’s a definite no-no to write either on the Common application?
:?</p>

7

<p>They’ll see you took those foreign languages on your transcript and at what level so they’ll know you’re not fluent.</p>

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<p>I know that they’ll know at which level I’m fluent or not, but I was wondering if my limited knowledge was worth writing on the Application…I was encouraged by my principal to do so…but I don’t want to if it’s falsifying information or may be reviewed in the form of a test. (Although I’m confident that a test in Spanish–I’d do good on…)</p>