<p>what do you think are the chances for colleges like harvard and jhu to have an alumni conduct my interview in a foreign language, such as French or Japanese, if I've listed in the application that I'm fluent in those languages?</p>
<p>Has anyone ever had an interviewer speak in Latin, Spanish, or other foreign languages?</p>
<p>If you really are fluent in those languages, you don't have to worry about it.
If you are not, you shouldn't have written that.</p>
<p>Dont worry bout languages if ur fulent in it..the interview will look informal type..but that is where they judge a student...</p>
<p>Latin? Do inform me when an interviewer conducts the meeting in a dead language. Er...</p>
<p>I seriously doubt that interviews would be fitted so specifically to a student's individual skills. I don't know, do they even take the application's content into account in most cases? And as the previous posters have stated, if you are fluent, then it should be no problem.</p>
<p>My U Chicago interviewer was a German professor at Davidson. We conducted part of the interview in German. :D He had interviewed me for a German program a couple years prior to that, though.</p>
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<p>Imagine if that interview were held at Starbucks.
The people sitting around the interview would be like, "uhhh I hope this isn't some cult meeting..."
hahhaha ;]</p>
<p>haha. wow, German interview for U Chicago?</p>
<p>well, Harvard's supplement actually asks "what languages other than english can you speak," without explicitly stating "fluently," but i'm just a little nervous since formal japanese is pretty different from conversational japanese and requires preparation for even native japanese speakers, and i've taken 4 yrs of french and used to be pretty confident but it's been about 10months since my last class so i'm just a lil shaky right now...</p>
<p>Je parle bilingue parfaitement, sans accent.</p>
<p>/obscure</p>
<p>I really don't think they'd interview you in a foreign language. don't worry about it.</p>
<p>well...theres still that 1% chance and im willing to take a whole class rather than risk it.
i guess ill just have to ask my interviewer on the phone, "btw, do u speak french?"
haha how dumb wud that be...</p>
<p>I've never, ever heard of that happening...I speak two languages and my interviews were never conducted in my second language. I don't think that having 4 years of French constitutes being able to speak a language (as most high school students take 3-4 years of a language...then again, if you think you're good enough to speak fluently, that's fine by me!), but I still think that you shouldn't worry.</p>