<p>I did three years of Spanish and had to stop because I just hated it. Though I'm planning to do 12 units of intensive Russian (something I like) at UVa. Will colleges acknowledge this work even though it isn't on my highschool transcript? Will they see it as 4 years of high school language? That's roughly what 12 college units converts to.</p>
<p>12 units of foreign language converst to three, doesn't it?</p>
<p>Language courses are four units, because of lab.</p>
<p>12/4=3
3X.333=9.99 which is rounded up to 10.</p>
<p>UVa quotes that it is 2 years of college language and from my understanding, you double the course's college length to get the high school length.</p>
<p>Anyway, disregarding that, will colleges still recognize this work toward my years of language completed in high school?</p>
<p>My D took 1 semester of Russian via correspondence- and it took her a year to complete (OK, she dances 30 hours/week and took a total of 6 other courses too). The grammar just in the first semester was unbelievable! Russian is a very difficult language- I don't know how anyone could do 4 years of rigorous Russian in summer. In an immersion program you could probably end up being able to get around Moscow, but no way you could remember all those declensions, cases etc etc in such a short time.</p>