<p>Which foreign language do you recommend taking? </p>
<p>The following foreign languages are still have seats available during summer:</p>
<p>Akan
Arabic
Chinese
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Russian
Swahili </p>
<p>As a requirement from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences my degree audit calls for ten credits worth of a foreign language. </p>
<p>Would taking the first part of the foreign language during summer A and the second part during summer B be to much?</p>
<p>I would say German, but I’m biased. I find it a very useful language and it’s Germanic, so it has similarities to English.</p>
<p>Depends. If you’re majoring in some time of business-degree thing, then Chinese or Arabic would be helpful.</p>
<p>But if you’re taking a language just because you have to, then take Russian. It’s an awesome language! :D</p>
<p>This is tangentially related, but is it okay if we take the SAT II Spanish exam at UF, instead of at… “home”?</p>
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<p>I’d say that it really depends on whether or not you really want to pursue the language or just check of the foreign lang requirement for your degree.</p>
<p>I’m minoring in French, so I am thoroughly biased there, but I think sticking to a European language is your best bet if you fall into the latter category. German, French or Italian would serve your purpose. German is somewhat related to English, (English is considered a Germanic language), but I have never studied it, so I have no idea how easy it is to learn. Any of those three will at the very least still use an alphabet similar or identical to English and have plenty of cognates and similar grammar rules to English. </p>
<p>I took my first two semesters of French Summer A/Summer B and actually liked it more than a full semester format. It is very fast paced and you have to work to keep up, but I think the immersion-like environment that the 6 week semester necessitated actually made the language a little easier to pick up. </p>
<p>If you really want to learn a useful language, go for Chinese. It is a royal pain in the ass to learn as a native English speaker, and is about as “foreign” as a foreign language can get, but it is one of the most in demand second languages right now. I have a friend that learned it in the Army and is making a ton of money as civilian now because he is fluent in the language.</p>