<p>For those of you who have taken either Korean, Japanese, or Chinese...how hard was the test? I'm thinking about taking either Korean or Chinese (I'm half both but also illiterate in both). Also how many years of those languages taken in high school are required for a high/perfect score in those? Because I've taken Korean1 and Chinese1-3 in high school so far (therefore I might be a little less rusty in Chinese); is that sufficient amount of time for chinese?</p>
<p>I'm kinda desperate for one of these because I need to take 1 more sat2 and I don't really have time to study for another one and getting I need to get a high high score since the %ile is so freaking low.</p>
<p>are you planning to take the listening test?
I think you should probably give it a try, the chances of you doing better in one of these languages are way higher than starting to prepare for a new subject!
and by the way, i took the practice test for chinese and it was pretty easy!
are you more comfortable with reading or listening?</p>
<p>^ not too sure lol I wanna know how the test is like and how many years of taking those languages would be proficient enough to "ace" the exam. is there like a book to use to prep for or a internet source?</p>
<p>I took the Japanese with listening and got a 790. I am not a native speaker and when I took the test I had studied Japanese for only a little more than a year and I had also been to Japan for about a month that summer.
I don't take Japanese in school, I go to an English-Japanese language center after school and I do a lot of self study. So I couldn't tell you how long you should take the language in school to do well. But I can tell you that I've been taking German in school for 3 years longer than I've been studying Japanese and I'm better at Japanese...
The whole test isn't really that bad. The grammar is very basic, it only tests around 300 kanji (you might need 400 or more for Chinese and luckily none for Korean) and the only marginally hard part was the listening section. Although I'm a bit biased of a source because by the time I took the test I was already studying upper-intermediate/advanced Japanese so I could handle the stuff on the SAT 2 just fine. I would assume the Chinese and Korean tests would be about the same though.</p>
<p>The Asian language SAT 2s aren't as hard as the European language ones because the college board doesn't expect American students (the majority of them being white) to have extensive exposure to Asian languages.</p>
<p>Hi, I took the SAT Chinese. I took it my freshman year to get it out of the way, I'm aiming for Berkeley. I'm a native speaker but honestly I haven't really learned Chinese since...I was...three. I was born in China but once I started school in America...I forgot all my Chinese. It was pretty easy, no trick questions, common dialogue, etc. The grammar is pretty easy if you can at least listen to basic Chinese. I got an 800 but I was unsure of one question.</p>
<p>^ You haven't learned Chinese since you were 3 and still got an 800? :O thats impressive lol...but how'd you recognize the characters? Also how advance are the characters? I heard it only goes up to like 3rd grade chinese (in China ofc)</p>
<p>Oh, and also for Hippo724...what Japanese classes did you take and what was the latest one you took (Japanese 1/2/3 Standard/Honors/AP?)</p>
<p>As I said, I didn't take Japanese in school, so I didn't have access to standardized classes like APs or anything. Instead, I went (and still go to) an English-Japanese Language Center after school.
Basically I stay there for 3 hours a day, once a week. The first hour is usually just me and my teacher but things are very fluid and a lot of the times there are one or two other people there with me.
The next two hours I'm there because my teacher likes having me around when she teaches her other classes. So for hour 2 I'm there helping with elementary school kids and for hour 3 I'm in a group with high school kids my age. </p>
<p>Nothing's standardized. We don't take tests, get graded, get credit, etc but it's very clear the progress that everyone makes in the language.</p>
<p>The Chinese is very basic. I remember that the first question was something along the lines of: Hi, how are you? It's not very fast either. The answer choices are very obvious. There are different types of questions, & the passages are very short (ads, letters, short notes, etc). It sounds like a lot but it's all very basic. For some questions they give you a choice of characters (pinyin, traditional, etc).</p>
<p>Don't prep! It's not a systematic study! lol. You can string out the answer by getting the feel of it. My school offers Mandarin & many non-native speakers took it & did well.</p>