<p>will taking foreign language as an engineer fulfill any GE requirements or anything? basically, will it just waste time and take me longer to graduate if i take foreign language classes?</p>
<p>nope, wont fullfill anything, yep, it will just waste time and take you longer to graduate. Unless you really like foreign languages or something... it not, then don't bother.</p>
<p>darn, i actually kind of like japanese.</p>
<p>One of the university requirements is fulfilling a year of a foreign language - more specifically up to level 3 (basically the third quarter of Japanese if you were starting from the very beginning of the sequence). Unless you passed out of this through AP Exams, you must get through the foreign language requirement. Click [url=<a href="http://my.ucla.edu/dprfaq.htm#18%5Dhere%5B/url">http://my.ucla.edu/dprfaq.htm#18]here[/url</a>].
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE REQUIREMENT & FOREIGN LANGUAGE PLACEMENT EXAMS</p>
<p>Students entering the UCLA College, the School of the Arts and Architecture, or the School of Theater, Film, and Television will be held for a foreign language requirement in order to graduate. Students held for the English as a Second Language Placement Examination (ESLPE) are also held for the foreign language requirement (with the exception of international students who are on visa status, from a non-English speaking country). Students may satisfy the foreign language requirement in one of three ways:</p>
<pre><code>* Credit for a foreign language course at UCLA for quarter level 3 or above or an equivalent course at another institution.
* Advanced Placement (AP) foreign language test in French, German or Spanish with a score of 3, or the Latin test with a score of 4.
* A UCLA Foreign Language Placement exam score indicating foreign language competency through quarter level 3 or higher.
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<p>Students who have taken a Foreign Placement Exam and have received the appropriate score to satisfy the College of Letters and Science Foreign Language requirement will have their DPR Foreign Language requirement updated after the Spring quarter begins.</p>
<p>If you received an appropriate score high to satisfy the Foreign Language requirement and your DPR is indicating REQUIRED, please bring your ORIGINAL Placement Exam Result to your College or School counseling office. For students in the College of Letters and Science, please bring your Placement Exam Result to B-320 Murphy Hall, attention: Robert Kilgore. Photocopies are NOT acceptable.</p>
<p>If you need to obtain a replacement Foreign Language Placement Exam result, please go to the department of the foreign language.
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<p>the students in the school of engineering are exempt from that requirement. Foreign languages are fun, but they're a lot of work. You can try taking Japanese 1 (or whatever level you test into) and see how you like it, and if you can handle the workload along with your other classes, etc.</p>
<p>did the spanish placement exam focus on spelling alot? will you miss alot of questions if youre not sure of the spelling of spanish words?</p>
<p>how is the spanish placement exam compared to the ap spanish language exam? the material? the difficulty?</p>
<p>is the fill in the blank like the one of AP?
is reading comprehension a long passage or just one paragraph?</p>
<p>still waiting on my AP Spanish grade :/ if i get a 3, i shouldn't bother taking the diagnostic exam in orientation, right??</p>
<p>Newton, I hear that it's all multiple choice...</p>
<p>i don't believe there was any "how do you spell this" type of questions... it mostly tests you on your vocab, your reading skills, and conjugation skills. many of the questions that i had asked me to read a passage and the followed with a multiple choice question about that passage. there were also a few that gave me a sentence missing a word or two and then asked which word of the following words/phrases bests fits in the blank out of the four choices. i think that its very doable to pass out of the language req if you've taken a few years in HS and, like Jinobi mentioned above, use context clues to answer questions when you really aren't sure what's the question's about.</p>
<p>"how is the spanish placement exam compared to the ap spanish language exam? the material? the difficulty?"</p>
<p>i wish i could help you here but, i didn't take the AP Span exam... i would think that it's a little easier since you don't have to do any writing. </p>
<p>"is the fill in the blank like the one of AP?"</p>
<p>nope... all multiple choice.</p>
<p>"is reading comprehension a long passage or just one paragraph?"</p>
<p>it's just short paragraphs. and it's on the computer so, the way it works is similar to the computerized GRE and MCAT where they give you a medium-difficulty question and whether or not you get the answer right determines the difficulty of the next question. if the you get it right, you'll get a harder one. if you get it wrong, you'll get an easier one. </p>
<p>"still waiting on my AP Spanish grade :/ if i get a 3, i shouldn't bother taking the diagnostic exam in orientation, right??"</p>
<p>you can take the placement exam any quarter since its offered one or two days every quarter. i was a third year this past year and took the exam spring quarter and passed (with mild studying). i would definitely wait until you get your AP scores and if you didn't pass you can always take the exam this fall.</p>
<p>so is everything gonna be in spanish - the reading passages, the questions, the answer choices, EVERYTHING?</p>
<p>QUESTION: I signed up for a language test for orientation but it turns out I got a 5 on the AP (as you can understand, i signed up for caution's sake since i didn't know what i received on the AP when i signed up for orientation) ... am i going to be charged for not taking the test after all, or are the orientation people pretty stringent on making sure people take all the required tests? (language, math, etc.)</p>
<p>You can change tests you signed up for on MyUCLA</p>
<p>so far, I've just self-studied the equivalent of 3 years of HS spanish that I forgot. Should I try to study further just in case?</p>
<p>which of the following topics are covered in the exam?:
imperfect subjunctive
long-form possessive adjectives and pronouns (mio, tuyo, suyo)
si clauses
future perfect
conditional perfect
hacer in time expressions
pluperfect indicative
pluperfect subjunctive and conditional perfect
subjunctive with indefinite and nonexistent antecedents
relative pronouns: que, quien, and lo que
passive voice
pero vs sino</p>
<p>also, how big of a deal will spelling be? like for example, will you get a question wrong if you forget the stem-changes for irregular verbs? if you don't know of the irregular forms of future, imperfect, preterite, etc tenses?</p>
<p>Search for the Spanish department at UCLA and find the contact information.</p>
<p>I emailed a person and shes out of her office. I guess I'll have to call the office on Monday</p>