<p>Does anyone know where I can find some sample Spanish w/Listening questions? I'm considering taking the Spanish with Listening but I want to know the difficulty of understanding them first before I spend an extra $19 plus a CD player to take a test where I don't understand the questions. I haven't been able to find the sample questions with listening anywhere yet. They usually recommend listening only for students who have studied abroad, but of course I think I can overcome that hurdle.</p>
<p>You can find some sample questions on the College Board website.</p>
<p>Is there anywhere where I can hear the listening questions? I haven't yet looked at CB to see if they offer that, but I would like to hear how the native speakers sound, since there are some regional differences and they might speak too quickly for me to understand, especially with Spanish.</p>
<p>I repeat: You can find some sample questions on the College Board website. </p>
<p>rockermcr is right -- collegeboard website has actual listening samples. I did both listening and non-listening sample tests on collegeboard and discovered I did much better with the listening.</p>
<p>Sorry about that, but I didn't look first. I'll need to try them on a different computer though since mine has minimal sound volume. Thanks a lot :)</p>
<p>Has anyone on here taken the listening test that has NOT studied abroad? I was wondering if it's still doable, even without taking AP Spanish first. I'm still rather advanced in my studies, but I'm really unsure about whether I should take this test.</p>
<p>^It may now look like I have serious comprehension issues, but I DO realize that you have taken the Spanish test with Listening, and I'm guessing you didn't study abroad. I just would like a little more feedback.</p>
<p>Look I dont want to sound like an arrogant person ,but is the listening test really that easy?
I'm asking this because although my first language is portuguese ,I've been living in El Salvador for one year so my spanish is very good.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Well, I took French w/ Listening, and it's practically the same test just in a different language. I have never been to France, or even to Quebec (I'm Canadian), and I don't speak French at home. However, since the first grade, I've been in a French Immersion program (it's a Canadian thing to ensure that most of the population is at least slightly billingual). In grade 7, I began going to an entirely French school. I got a 760 on the French with Listening test, and I honestly didn't find it too hard. </p>
<p>The best preparation for the listening section in particular is to watch movies in the language you're taking the exam in, and have subtitles if you have trouble understanding. I know that there are plenty of extremely good Spanish movies (I watched a bunch in my Spanish class), so you can definitely improve. </p>
<p>I feel that the listening section makes the exam easier. If you can understand what's being said, all the information is included in the dialogs, and you don't have to think about anything you heard to be able to answer the questions. When I took the exam in French, I remember a dialogue with a child talking to her mother and asking her to buy him a cat (or was it a dog?), and the mother said that she didn't want to because they were expensive. In the exam, one of the questions asked why the mother didn't want to buy her daughter a cat. It's really that easy.</p>
<p>Now, I have two strategies for the listening. First, you should fast forward through the instructions (you will hear each dialogue only once, you must answer on your answer sheet, etc.), because that gives you an extra minute during which you can listen to a dialogue you didn't understand twice. The second strategy is to answer the questions as you hear the answers. You don't necessarily need to bubble them in right then and there because that might cause you to lose concentration on the dialogue, but you can just circle the right answer in the booklet. It's a lot easier to do this than to try to remember what you heard if you answer the questions after.</p>