Deciding On Languages

So I am transferring to a new school for the following school year. I used to go to a charter school, and this school has a terrible selection of language teachers and options. My two options were Turkish and Spanish. I took Spanish out of necessity and I took Spanish 2 in my freshman year (my school is a K-12 school, so all throughout middle school we basically did Spanish 1). Without the official Spanish 1 class, everyone in my grade level did terrible.

For my new school, I just registered and completely misread my elective options and didn’t choose a language class. I intend to ask for a schedule change once I get called in to meet my guidance counsellor.

My question is: should I continue onto Spanish 3 in my sophomore year, or should I choose a different language? The three other options are French, Italian, or Latin. I completely dread Spanish because of my bad experience with teachers. I would have chosen Latin, but I do not know if I want to be in the medical field in the future.
Would changing my language to, let’s say French, hinder my chances of getting into certain colleges? I know this probably sounds like an overthinking question, but I’m a first generation Japanese-American in my family and I want to set a good example for my siblings (cheesy, I know).

I think you should stick with Spanish. It’s less than ideal to switch around your language choice in high school.

If you really, really loathe it, switch. Just make an educated decision and know that it may raise questions on an application.

My daughter had a not great experience with Spanish in middle school and thought she was “bad” at it…when she went to HS she realized the issue was that it was faster paced (at an international school) but at a US HS it was much slower paced and she excelled. So you may like it at a new school.

Unless you are into languages I would take Spanish this year and next year and finish at Spanish 4. Most colleges want you to reach the 4th level of a language (not necessarily take 4 years).

But if you really don’t like it, then take another language and don’t worry.