<p>Hey guys
I'm thinking about minoring in either chinese or spanish. This fall I'll be a freshman in COLA. I plan to do internal transfer to McCombs at the end of my freshman year</p>
<p>Should I wait until sophmore to start minoring so it won't mess up my transfer gpa?</p>
<p>Any words from someone who's minored in either language?</p>
<p>Which would be more useful?</p>
<p>Thanks
:)</p>
<p>You will probably need to wait until sophomore year anyway. Beginning language classes are difficult notoriously difficult to get into. Especially Spanish.</p>
<p>After third year college Spanish, you will be able to speak Spanish well enough to function. After third year college level Chinese, you will not yet be able to speak chinese well enough to function. (Chinese is a much harder language to learn. More useful because it is less common, but you’d need some study abroad.)</p>
<p>(If by some chance you could get into Chinese first year, it could put your transfer GPA at risk because it is known to be hard - then again, you may have a gift for it.)</p>
<p>Thank you so much for the replies!</p>
<p>Yea, I figured Chinese was notoriously difficult. I don’t know what exactly, but something about the language intrigues me :)</p>
<p>It’ll probably be useful for business one day</p>
<p>As for Spanish, how many hours are required to minor in a foreign language?</p>
<p>[UT</a> College of Liberal Arts](<a href=“Spanish & Portuguese | Liberal Arts | UT - Austin”>Spanish & Portuguese | Liberal Arts | UT - Austin)</p>
<p>Introductory Chinese classes are notoriously difficult to get into. </p>
<p>The poster above is right. Learning Chinese is much more difficult than learning Spanish. Foreigners need to invest a lot of time in order to master Chinese. It usually takes 4yrs of college work along with 1yr+ of experience abroad in order to become proficient.</p>
<p>hey caligirl, which COLA major are you in? Or are you undeclared in COLA?</p>
<p>Government :)</p>
<p>@redhotsrock
How about you? COLA student?</p>
<p>lol hopefully in the near future! my tastes are a bit eccentric so I might be going for either philosophy or history</p>
<p>bump</p>
<p>I want to take a Philosophy course (Intro to Logic I believe)</p>
<p>Has anyone taken any Spanish or Chinese classes at ut?
ANY advice would be very much so appreciated :)</p>
<p>The beginner classes for Chinese are hard to get into (as everyone has pointed out). You will have to register pretty early in order to get into one. If you manage to get in, you can expect a lot of homework and classwork everyday. It is a five hour class for the non-accelerated, and it will take up a very large part of your week. I’m in engineering, and they pretty much advised me not to take the course because it would be too much of a work load. Granted, I was trying to take the accelerated because I already have a foundation in Chinese, but I assume the non-accelerated would be comparably difficult to someone new to Chinese. I think it is also a four semester commitment, so that’s something to think about as well.</p>
<p>I can’t say much about spanish.</p>