<p>As an incoming freshman next year I'm scheduled to take the following:</p>
<p>Early Bird Gym
Biology - H
Word History - H
English 1 - H
Alg 2/Trig - H
Spanish 2 - H
Latin 2 - H
French 1 - H</p>
<p>My problem is with the three language courses. I know that it will be A LOT of work and I'm having second thoughts as to whether I'll be able to handle it. Do you think I should drop French? Originally, I figured that if I wanted to learn the language, then I might as well start now. I'm not so sure anymore. If I didn't take French, I would swap it for Advanced Piano Composition and Theory. I need help....</p>
<p>Three languages might a bit hard especially since they're all honors.
If you don't think you can handle it, don't take it, and then you can keep your grades up (assuming that Advance Piano Comp and Theory is easy for you).</p>
<p>Your schedule looks fine to me. If you have a passion for languages, then don't hold back. Spanish and French are very similar (I don't know about Latin).</p>
<p>STAY WITH THE LANGUAGES!!!!! Colleges really look at students who've studied 2 languages. I've never heard of someone taking 3 though!! I commend you on taking all 3. My school won't let me take french and spanish :'( (our only 2 languages).</p>
<p>I am taking AP Spanish and already have a little French background, and you will be surprised by the similar grammar and words between French and Spanish.</p>
<p>I don't know if you should do all three languages. You have other honors courses and three languages are going to be alot of work and very confusing. I am a native speaker of the spanish language and was also in all honors classes. The workload of all the classes was very hard. Freshman year I almost had 2 hours worth of hw every night and I had track practice. The teachers give you extra because you are in honors. I will stay up every night till 11:00.If you like to learn languages and you don't have any sports or clubs, then go right ahead. But if you do sports or clubs, its going to be alot of work.</p>
<p>oh by the way, french is much easier than spanish. Spanish has too many tenses. Latin will help you on your SATs(latin prefixes). Spanish and latin are very close. My friend takes french and it is not similar to spanish. The words do not sound the same or look the same. However, latin words and spanish words are similar.</p>
<p>latin and spanish are A LOT closer than french and the other two---just correcting the above poster. I'd drop french before spanish...can you drop after a few weeks? I'd test it out, see if you can handle the confusingness</p>
<p>Are all of you kidding me? French is SO MUCH closer to English than Latin or Spanish. I've taken 5 years of French; I know. That said, Spanish is similar to French. Latin is the least similar, given all its declensions and cases and whatnot. French words can be easily connected to English ones, and Spanish to French or English. (i.e. to have = avoir (Fr.) = habere (Sp.) or (to drink in French = boire, while in English we have the word "beverage." See how it works?</p>
<p>to the OP: I think since you have the opportunity to take advanced piano compositision you must already be pretty advanced in your musical studies so If you're thinking of any easier option instead of three languages you should probably take the piano class</p>
<p>I don't think your courseload is too heavy per se, but you would be wise to drop one of your languages and replace it with another one. Taking three languages isn't really that big a problem, but they are so closely related that you could easily end up confusing them.</p>
<p>I've always taken Honors courses -- no big.</p>
<p>I'd have second-thoughts about taking three languages if they were drastically different in structure, but since they're all romance languages anyhow, I'm sure you won't have a problem.</p>
<p>Thank you to all who have replied. I think I will try out French and see how it goes. If worse comes to worst, I can drop it and talk to my counselor about other options.</p>
<p>Edit:<br>
This is pretty trivial, but I just realized that the fourth sentence in my original post didn't make any sense. I meant to say - Originally, I figured that if I was going to learn the language sometime in my life, I might as well start sooner rather than later.</p>
<p>I don't even think that's correct grammar wise, but I guess you get the drift. Haha...sorry, I'm weird like that.</p>