<p>I have 2 B's in Japanese and 1 C. I plan on majoring in English, will this hurt my chances? Also, Is it okay to take a language that you are a native in, such as someone taking Chinese who is Chinese, or Spanish who is mexican? Will UCs look down upon that?</p>
<p>The major requirements are more important but the B's and C certainly lower your GPA. In order to satisfy the requirement you have to take two years of a foreign language--that is, a language you do not already speak fluently. I would imagine that there is no bearing on which language you choose based on race or ethnicity.</p>
<p>Actually english majors at ucla have the convenient option of only taking 1 year of a forgeign language plus 1 year of some kind of foreign-based literature like intro to humanities/mythology.</p>
<p>As far as your grades in the language classes, they do not care about your foreign language classes as much as your english classes. in fact, the foreign language classes are the only ones they allow the option of taking for P/NP credit instead of an actual grade.</p>
<p>I am Russian and i took Russian.</p>
<p>No one at any school you apply to is going to know that you are native in that language unless you tell them. Maybe you immigrated when you were 5 months old and your parents didnt teach you, or better yet maybe you are third generation here. </p>
<p>Take the language you already speak and get a gpa boost.</p>
<p>"Actually english majors at ucla have the convenient option of only taking 1 year of a forgeign language plus 1 year of some kind of foreign-based literature like intro to humanities/mythology."</p>
<p>So, taking two years in high school would equal one semester, and one additional semester of a foreign language at your CC would equal one year, correct? But it would have to be the class after intro to the foreign language, yes? And then taking two semester of literature in translation courses would satisfy the rest of the requirement? </p>
<p>I have asked a few counselors about this and they all give me different answers. </p>
<p>Thanks...</p>
<p>If you already speak another language other than English, you can simply test out of the requirement once you get into UCLA. This way you don't even have to take the classes, you can focus on major and IGETC instead.</p>
<p>chumphree- I'm no counselor(just an english major trying to transfer to ucla) but that sounds right. For example if your cleared for french 101 because you took french in highschool and then just take french 102 and 2 lit/translation courses that should satisfy it.</p>
<p>"2nd semester of one foreign language and two additional courses in foreign language or foreign literature, including foreign literature in translation."
~ assist.org</p>