Foreign Lang In Hs - Please Help

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>I was just talking to my guidance counselor and he told me that most top schools recommend four years of a foreign language. However, I plan to have three years of Spanish because I can't fit it into my schedule of classes that includes AP Comp Sci and AP Stats (which not many people take). Would this be bad for me? Should I just take a fourth year of Spanish even though I'm interested in other things?</p>

<p>BTW, this is how my Spanish education has gone so far:</p>

<p>9th grade - Spanish 2</p>

<p>Summer school before 10th - Spanish 3 (I am told colleges look at level of foreign lang)</p>

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<p>Teke the classes you're interested in. As long as you have at least 3 years of a language, you should be fine.</p>

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<p>I want to take another language along with Spanish next year. Does anyone know any good ones to take???</p>

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<p>German. I take French because I used to live in Canada and French was mandatory there, so I just continued with it. It's okay too, but I don't think that French is the most useful language.</p>

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<p>If you like Spanish, you should continue it.
esahopeful95, you should take either German, Japanese, Chinese (if you can get the last two.)</p>

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<p>Which languages are offered @ your school?</p>

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<p>you can take it online</p>

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<p>I agree-go with Spanish. It could end up helping you tremendously, especially if you apply for a job somewhere in the southern half of the US.</p>

<p>(Plus you could study abroad in, sigh, Madrid!)</p>

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<p>add german, chinese, or russian. </p>

<p>i added french to my german and regretted it-- what a stupid language. and this is coming from someone who likes studying language.</p>

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<p>Actually I have a question about this entire thing, slightly off topic sorry. I was wondering should I drop spanish next yr (spanish 4) and take an extra math or science course? What do you all recommend?</p>

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<p>"Actually I have a question about this entire thing, slightly off topic sorry. I was wondering should I drop spanish next yr (spanish 4) and take an extra math or science course? What do you all recommend?"</p>

<p>If that's your passion, I suppose it won't hurt. Depends on what colleges your interested in too, I'm guessing.</p>

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<p>NerdyUSCgirl: Do you know where I can do that and how time-consuming and difficult the course is? (Since I will be taking an extremely difficult courseload next year)</p>

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<p><a href="http://www.virtualhighschool.com%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.virtualhighschool.com&lt;/a> ; D</p>

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<p>^^^
i dont think they offer it :(</p>

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<p>The three most useful languages imo are: Chinese, English, and Spanish. German, Russian, and Japanese are also good languages to know. Compared to these others, French is kind of pointless...</p>