<p>Ok so today I was told that the French Program at my school will no longer be carried at my school starting next year. I am a sophomore, and I have taken French all thorough middle school, and was in 2 years of Honors French in High School. Needless to say i don't know another foreign language. My options are as follows-
1. go into a freshman level language that I don't know...I would not be in Honors
2. go into freshman level Latin HONORS...this is a hard class though (and I don't know any Latin)
3. take online French, possible Honors credits, but I don't know how taking a language online will go
4. drop out of languages after only taking 2 years. i could try to take another Honors elective. </p>
<p>Needless to say, my school insists that they will include a letter with my transcript explaining that the program was cancelled. Which one of these would you recommend and which would look best for college. I do not plan on taking a language in college.</p>
<p>“I have taken French all through middle school, and was in 2 years of Honors French in High School.”</p>
<p>Here is the major question: what level of French will you complete by end of this year? Saying you took it throughout middle school indicates you may already be at 4th year high school level. If that is the case, you are done. You already have four years of language. When colleges say they want three or four years of high school language, they are referring to level reached not that you necessarily have to have language all four years of high school.</p>
<p>If you actually need more, you have the possible option of taking a community college class. An on-line class will also work as long as you can get high school credit for it or it is approved for college credit.</p>
<p>I would have finished French 2…you need to start at 1 in my school 
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And the online course would count as high school credits, I’m not sure if I would enjoy it though, a language online seems iffy.</p>
<p>What Drusba is saying doesn’t refer to the course title that is on your transcript.</p>
<p>Talk to me in french. </p>
<p>Ask me what my name is and how am i doing? ask me how old i am, and where i’m from. </p>
<p>^^ if you can do more than that you are probably well past level 2 french</p>
<p>Hola! Como Estas? Como te llamas? mi nombre es Jacob. Cuantos anos tienes? '</p>
<p>Thats about all i can do after two years of spanish</p>
<p>not sure how that helps me here but thanks…?</p>
<p>and yeah i can do that in french</p>
<p>Bonjour! Comment t’apples tu? Tu est d’ou?</p>
<p>Don’t do online. My DD had to do that, and it was not a good experience. Is it possible for you to take another french course at a community college?</p>
<p>You have two full years of high school French. If that is enough to graduate from your HS, you are good to go. It is not expected that you pursue a course of studies that is not available at your HS. However, if you want to take more foreign language courses, consider the options suggested above.</p>
<p>There must be many other students in your school that are in the same predicament. It should be the administration’s responsibility to search out options for its students when they completely cancel a program like this. Very very poor management on their part, IMO.</p>
<p>You really just need to take one semester of college French somewhere to equate to a year of HS. Is there no community college or university in your area where you could do this?</p>
<p>What would YOU enjoy doing most?</p>
<p>You may not know any Latin, but French is a Romance language - it’s based on Latin. So taking the Latin class may be easier than you think and may help you if you decide to continue with French in college.</p>
<p>I don’t think that you “need” to take college French somewhere, although it may be beneficial to you. It depends on where you are aiming to go to college. If you are shooting for the Ivy League or equivalent top schools, then that would probably be your best bet, but if you are trying for good schools that are not in that range, a letter of explanation plus other rigorous courses will likely be enough.</p>
<p>I don’t think saying more than “What is your name, how are you, where are you from” indicates that you MUST be “well past level 2.” Those are things they teach you in first-year French.</p>
<p>Can you take a French course at a community college?</p>
<p>Latin may be risky in terms of being cut in the near future; actually it is surprising that Latin stays while French gets cut.</p>
<p>Go with Latin. It’ll look good to colleges.</p>
I would second not doing a language class online. I’m in the middle of Spanish 201 and it is brutally hard. Language is made to be spoken, and this class is nothing but grammar drill after grammar drill after grammar drill. I’m good at languages, and I like languages (I picked up Italian in no time flat when I lived over there) and I HATE HATE HATE this class.
On top of the speaking component consisting solely of talking into a microphone and sending it to the teacher once a week, the software itself is terribly hard to use and buggy. I just checked my last quiz and it had truncated a translation, resulting in a terrible grade for me. I know I sent in the entire translation, and saved it, and checked it. The teacher’s like, I didn’t get it, I don’t care that it looks obviously truncated, that’s your grade. And I have no dean or other person to accelerate the issue with-I’m stuck with a 79 on that quiz.
So, I strongly recommend against online language courses-see if you can enroll at a community college for French class. Since the school is ditching french, the least they could do is help get you set up in that direction-push for it.
Our kids had both French and Spanish in elementary/middle school. Once they got to HS, we insisted that they focus on Spanish. French is too impractical. S1 took two years of Latin to go with the Spanish. D1 audited French II Honors this year. The extra points were not going to help her and we did not want her to be overwhelmed with two Honors languages at the same time.
Agree with others above on online classes. They are not good to build the conversational part. Latin would be the exception as it is not really a ‘conversational’ language. Taking the Latin class may show colleges that you did not simply give up. Make the best of a bad situation.
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