<p>I hate foreign language but I need to be proficient in a language for the comm school so what is the easiest way to get past the language requirement at UVA. I took Spanish in High School but i hated it and I would rather not take french.</p>
<p>good god. UVa offers SO many languages. Italian, Hindi, Urdu, Arabic, Swahili, German, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Tibetan, Korean, etc. This isn’t high school.</p>
<p>Ask the comm school what language would best help you in the future. 10 bucks that they’ll say Spanish or an Asian language.</p>
<p>None are “easiest”, sorry</p>
<p>For a native English speaker, Spanish is by far one of the easiest languages to learn, much easier than French. These days an Asian language is extremely useful, but you clearly don’t seem like a linguist (or you had a bad teacher, with languages, the quality of teaching can be the difference between a good experience and a bad experience) if you had trouble with Spanish, so you’d probably have a great deal of difficulty with an Asian language.</p>
<p>You already took spanish. French is going to be the easiest now. Just get it over with.</p>
<p>DON’T take Japanese - it’s really intense at UVA
Or Russian. My first year roommate took that and she had to learn 50 vocab words for every lecture!!!
I took Hebrew, insanely easy, but as I’ve taken it since elem school I guess that doesn’t count.
My roommate took Spanish and everything up until the last semester (202) was easy but the last one nearly killed her.
I second what everyone else said, for business take an asian language or spanish. And no language is “easiest” here but some are definitely more difficult. Usually the ones with different alphabets.</p>
<p>You want to go to one of the best colleges in the country, and “hate foreign language”? I just find that odd…</p>
<p>hahahhahah sounds like an excellent and dedicated student to me!! and why are you worried about foreign language?</p>
<p>hey i hate foreign language too haha. you should consider the SLI program. you get all your credits done in one summer. tats what i might do to lighten my load</p>
<p>Well most people will probably tell you that proficiency in Spanish or Chinese is especially useful. The only foreign language classes I have taken so far at uva have been in the Chinese department. I wouldn’t recommend it for you if you aren’t willing to work, but the Chinese department is VERY good. It’s a lot of work but it’s very rewarding. You’ll learn a lot in just two semesters. but if you don’t want to put in a lot of effort, it will just seem like a chore. </p>
<p>I don’t really know anything else about the other languages. Like someone said earlier, I’ve heard the Japanese department is REALLY intense. So if you are looking for something easier, at least you can rule that language out. </p>
<p>If you don’t like Spanish or French, there are a lot of languages to choose from. If you just try another one out I’m sure you will find one you enjoy!</p>
<p>“For a native English speaker, Spanish is by far one of the easiest languages to learn, much easier than French.”</p>
<p>1) From my experience, German is the EASIEST language for an English speaker to learn. </p>
<p>Meine Schwester hat braunes Haar. Sie ist intelligent. Sie studiert Medizin in Berlin. Sie kann gut singen. </p>
<p>My sister has brown hair. She is intelligent. She studies medicine in Berlin. She can sing well. </p>
<p>Mi hermana tiene el pelo marron. Ella es inteligente. Ella estudia medicina en Berlin. Ella puede cantar bien. </p>
<p>Ma soeur est brune. Elle est intelligente. Elle fait les etudes de medicine </p>
<p>haha, i took spanish at the local CC and the first semester we had a final - 100% oral. so useful. then the 2nd semester we didn’t have to speak at all! not useful at all.</p>
<p>I might be biased since I’m fluent in French and Spanish, and ich spreche kein Deutsch are the only words I can get out in German - but I still believe based on alphabet differences, and pronunciation for a native English Speaker, spanish is the easiest and most useful. But then again, everyone is different.</p>
<p>You seem to be a language person (so am I, I’m a native speaker of Spanish, and I speak Portuguese, French and Italian fluently) and so languages are probably very easy for us to learn. Spanish is very useful, yes, but the way I hear it spoken by UVA students (and by Americans in general), I wouldn’t consider it the easiest b/c if it were, people wouldn’t mess it up as badly—IMO. People can “fake-talk” in Spanish, if you know what I mean…other languages like French, you can’t really “talk yourself” out of not knowing how to pronounce something, and so the students tend to work harder. IMO Spanish language learners are by in large pretty lazy b/c they consider it to be “so” easy, sorry if I’m offending people!</p>
<p>Lol this is featured on yahoo and I thought of this thread: [Speak</a> Easy: The Simplest Languages to Learn - DivineCaroline](<a href=“http://www.divinecaroline.com/22189/80253-speak-easy--simplest-languages-learn]Speak”>http://www.divinecaroline.com/22189/80253-speak-easy--simplest-languages-learn)</p>
<p>Why don’t you go to thecourseforum.com and look up grade distributions? Some departments are known to have rough grade distributions (italian) while others surely are more generous.</p>
<p>I am also a pre-comm first year, but I am scheduled to take Italian. Would it make more sense to try to switch to Spanish?</p>
<p>Just take what you want, plus the chances of getting into spanish are slim.</p>