<p>For example, If I say I know 2 Indian (Hindi and Punjabi) would they test to see if I am fluent (Im not fluent, but can understand it, just can't speak it (also I can read and write hindi, not punjabi))</p>
<p>Plus, can I say I am fluent in Spanish if I took AP in High School?!</p>
<p>I don’t think they would test it! (I also know hindi, punjabi, english, and spanish!) </p>
<p>I Speak Spanish, English, Hindi, and Marathi not Punjabi. Oh well. However. I can only understand Hindi and Marathi. I can write and kinda speak Hindi tho. They don’t test it tho. </p>
<p>If you actually can’t speak Spanish fluently then I don’t think it’s a good idea to put down that you can speak Spanish fluently.</p>
<p>If you"ve passed the C2 level DELE exam, you can say you’re fluent in Spanish. Since AP Spanish is much lower than C2, you can’t.</p>
<p>What? if you pass the AP Spanish exam, i’m pretty sure that you are
fluent in Spanish. </p>
<p>If you’re fluent in Spanish, why are you taking Spanish classes, why do you want to waste $90+ dollars on an AP Spanish exam for potential college credits (do you even need to spend tuition on Spanish classes in college)?</p>
<p>I have no idea how good your Spanish is, so I have no right to judge. But this is the first impression I would get if I saw this. Just because you took an AP class in a language doesn’t mean you’re fluent, you could be good at taking tests, you could pass all the lower levels of Spanish classes with ease, but if you go to Spain and a restaurant owner tries to explain his super complex breakfast and lunch menu to you in 90mph spanish (this is a true story haha), will you be able to understand?</p>
<p>If you can, then wow pls be my translator the next time I go to Spain because 5 years of Spanish did not help me understand that restuarant owner</p>
<p>so if i put it down they have no way of knowing whether or not I’m fluent?</p>
<p>By all means, put it down. The adcom will roll their eyes, laugh uncontrollably, and then spend maybe 5 seconds looking for what else you lied about, before they toss your application in the reject pile.</p>
<p>Are you done trolling for today?</p>
<p>@skieurope I’m pretty sure that a degree of learning a second language will count for something. </p>
<p>If you were fluent in Spanish – it was not the result of four years of high school Spanish. AP Spanish does not render you fluent – which would mean that you picked up Spanish elsewhere. (I, for instance, grew up in a Puerto Rican neighborhood and picked up Spanish from my friends and neighbors – despite being Moroccan) – if you knew Spanish this way, you wouldn’t go through 4 years of rudimentary high school level Spanish. You would test into AP Spanish right away (like many native speakers do.) </p>
<p>I’m a native spanish speaker, got 5s on both the spanish lit and language exams and even I don’t think I could understand a Spaniard waiter talking at 90 mph, lol.</p>
<p>If you didn’t breeze by the AP Spanish class and exam with great scores, I wouldn’t consider you proficient. However, simply knowing 4 languages impresses just about anyone, including me and probably adcoms.</p>
<p>I don’t know about all college apps, but on the Common App, you can check these options for each language that you list:</p>
<p>First Language
Speak
Read
Write
Spoken at Home</p>
<p>So, you can explain your proficiency in languages to colleges using this nifty feature.</p>