<p>I wanna take a language that I haven't learned yet, so I'd be taking a 101-level course to start. Will it be a demanding? I'm not looking for an "easy A," just wondering.</p>
<p>depends. i took mandarin last semester and it wasn’t demanding at all. usually, the more complex the language is (compared to yours), the less demanding the intro class to that language becomes.</p>
<p>I’ve just found that it’s a lot of work. I’m taking Norwegian (which apparently is a fairly easy language for English speakers to learn) and my class is every day. It’s also the only class I have in which there’s homework every night, which is supremely annoying. I think most of the 101-level language classes here are similar, but it could be different for your school.</p>
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<p>Depends on the school. Post this in the specific college’s section of the site.</p>
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<p>What language are you trying to learn drexeler?</p>
<p>I know most of the languages might require you to go to the language lab on campus once a week or once every two weeks or so. But generally the 101 class are easier. And some of the 101 classes meet 3xs a week, but they are 4-credit courses.</p>
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<p>Going between similar types of languages is super easy.</p>
<p>ie, if you took spanish in high school, learning another romance language (french, italian) is easy since all of the grammatical rules are essentially the same.</p>
<p>mushaboom!
i was thinking about taking hindi, and i would take the first 2 elementary levels and 2 intermediate levels to fulfill elective requirements for engineering. i can either go this route or take 1 more lower level humanity course and 2 upper level humanities courses, but taking a language seems more tempting :)</p>
<p>Wow! Hindi? That pretty interesting. I know this one girl who was learning Arabic. I was looking through the list of languages offered under the department of African, M. eastern and South Asian studies and I didn’t realize the different languages that are offered at school, like Bengali and Yoruba. :)</p>
<p>If you really are highly interested and motivated to learn the language, that would be awesome to take the course(s). I think it will be demanding in the sense that the class will meet three times a week and most likely will require you to go to the language lab for homework assignments once in a while. I was trying to look for a sample syllabus for the course, but I had no luck.</p>
<p>You’ll have to wait until next fall though to sign up for the class because they offer elementary I in the fall and elementary II in the spring only. But that’s pretty cool :)</p>
<p>thanks mushaboom. i guess i’ll plan accordingly considering i still have to take expos and a required economics elective x__x</p>