<p>It says 600+ is that with listning or witout. I am pretty sure the with listening part is only offered in November, so basically if I havent taken the test by now, there is no way to do it and get out of language?</p>
<p>Is that an SAT II score? If you get that does it mean you don't have to do a language at Harvard? What if you want to do a language at Harvard anyway?</p>
<p>I believe the 600 is without listening.</p>
<p>You can certainly do a language at Harvard. It just means that if you do not want to fulfill the foreign language requirement (one year), you must place out by scoring 600+ on the SAT-II or on the Harvard language placement test, or 5 on an AP foreign language. </p>
<p>Harvard has a very strong language program that goes from Latin and Greek to Sanskrit, Tibetan, Urdu, Swahili....</p>
<p>They good at Chinese/Japanese? Can you do two languages?</p>
<p>There are placement tests offered at the beginning of each semester. You can use these to place out of the language requirement or into a higher-level course. Most, if not all, of these have a listening component.</p>
<p>Yes, you can study more than one language.</p>
<p>Harvard has the largest program in East Asian studies in the US. To learn more, check out East Asian Languages and Civilizations. Chinese and Japanese have excellent instructors. Yes, you can do two languages.</p>
<p>marite, do you know anything about the Korean classes offered?</p>
<p>The courses offered at these American unis are incredible! We're limited to three MAX over here, and usually only one or two.</p>
<p>m-c: I don't know specifically about the Korean classes. I would imagine they are excellent, too.</p>
<p>The Ace: Your various requirements may limit the number of language classes you will be able to take. Also, language classes are very time-consuming.</p>
<p>It's definitely a lot easier to get a 600 SAT II than a 5 on the AP, and probably easier to get a 600 than a 4. Why does harvard have such an inconsistent requirement?</p>
<p>It's because Harvard only accepts scores of 5 on the AP. Any student who is confident of scoring a 4 or 5 on an AP-language and wants to place out of the language requirement would be well-advised to take the SAT-II.</p>
<p>Does Harvard let you start a whole new language when you enter college? Because I <em>really</em> don't want to take another year of Spanish.. I'd rather learn something like Arabic or Japanese or Indonesian.. something completely new.</p>
<p>You can learn any language that's offered, whether or not you've taken it before.</p>
<p>I started taking Arabic this year (freshman year) and it was something I'd never done before. Most of the people in my class were freshmen with no experience. It's hard, as you would expect, but totally doable.</p>
<p>What standard do you get up to in a year?</p>
<p>That depends on how accelerated your program is.</p>
<p>You can take a year-long intro course, for example, or take that entire course in a semester (it counts as two classes) and jump to intermediate the next semester. (To be done at your own risk -- these "Intensive" language classes tend to kick people's a's.)</p>
<p>Awesome! I'm already excited :)</p>
<p>The college language classes go at a pretty fast clip, though. My D's roommate who had 4 years of Latin in high school wasn't much use for help by mid-semester.</p>