<p>Okay, so I am wanting to take an AP language my senior year because the college that I am applying to looks highly upon knowing another language (I also am genuinely interested in learning Spanish). My school's progression of Spanish classes is as follows: Spanish 1 > Spanish 2 > Spanish 3 > Honors Spanish 4 > AP Spanish.</p>
<p>I took Spanish 2 my sophomore year and am wanting to skip to AP Spanish for my senior year next year. I honestly do not remember too much, but I am sure that what I have learnt will come back fairly quickly once I look over it again. I would obviously study extensively over the summer, but I am wondering if that would be enough to get me to the pre-AP level that I would need to be at to begin taking the AP course next year.</p>
<p>Thank you for your time reading this and for any replies I get!</p>
<p>Like others have said, there are a ton of tenses and moods and important vocabulary learned before AP. </p>
<p>There’s the present, preterite, imperfect, and future tenses, most (all?) of those have perfect versions (ex I have walked home. Yo he caminado a mí casa.) and most (all?) of those in addition have subjunctive versions too. Not to mention the numerous irregular verbs. </p>
<p>I’m in Spanish 3 (which is immediately before AP Spanish at my school) and this year especially I’ve learned so much. AP Spanish focuses on “real life” examples. You’ll read actual news articles and listen to actual radio segments from all over the Spanish speaking world with the regional accents that that entails.</p>
<p>Okay, so I have no idea what you guys said in Spanish Yes, I will be teaching myself most of it, but I am at least not having to teach myself the actual AP part, just everything <em>up to</em> the AP part. Can anyone give me some real advice/tips?</p>
<p>There’s no “everything up to the AP part” … There’s no line that divides what is “AP spanish” and what is not. ← when you’re not a native speaker anyway</p>
<p>My girlfriend is a native speaker. She speaks it at home daily. She tried the different parts of the AP lang exam. She bombed it. </p>
<p>I took Spanish I and II. nostros no hablamos en espanol mi amigo. yo soy triste porque no hablo en espanol. </p>
<p>^^ thats the best i can come up with after that. </p>
<p>Start with learning the language. (thats the point isn’t it?) </p>
<p>When you can have conversations, just as you do in english… (you didn’t stop to look up the word girlfriend (novia) or native) then you’ve sufficiently learned Spanish enough to take 3-4 lears in learning to prep for the AP exam. </p>
<p>You even said you couldn’t understand the simple sentences they had. </p>
<p>Its simply not worth it, as impossible as it is.</p>
<p>Don’t even think about it. I’m taking Honors Spanish 4 and I knew everything they were trying to tell you and they are right. You will struggle a lot without Spanish 3 and 4 and you will bomb the AP exam. Take Honors Spanish 3 because you will not be able to teach yourself what you don’t know and learn higher level Spanish at the same time. There is no “AP part” to do well you will have to know all parts of Spanish (future and conditional tense, past tenses preterite and imperfect) which aren’t even touched on in Spanish 2. Save yourself the stress and don’t bother with AP Spanish.</p>
<p>I don’t recommend taking Spanish 2 and then straight to AP Spanish. Until Spanish 4, you learn grammar and vocab, and AP is where you actually write essays and read Spanish books. I haven’t seen anyone jumping from Spanish 2 to AP Spanish, since it’s a huge leap. However, I’ve seen people from Spanish 3 to AP Spanish (mostly really committed Seniors).</p>
<p>Plus, AP Spanish is not that bad. I don’t see why you shouldn’t take AP Spanish. You’ll eventually have to take Spanish course in your Freshman year in college. So, why not take it earlier and get it done with? It’ll definitely look good on college application!</p>
Yes, I will be teaching myself most of it, but I am at least not having to teach myself the actual AP part, just everything <em>up to</em> the AP part. Can anyone give me some real advice/tips?</p>