<p>I am currently self studying this language after having it so long for the ap exam. I have many books such as Triangulo, Una Vez Mas, Preparing for the language exam by Diaz, Segunda Vista: Grammar, and a bunch of others. What exactly should one do to build up their skills in reading, writing, listening, and speaking for this test? What should I do to get a 5? I am so lost? Can one of u all give me like a weekly to do list to do for this exam? I want a 5 so badly on it!!!!!!!</p>
<p>How many classes in Spanish have you had?</p>
<p>Watch a Spanish speaking channel. Cartoons, Newscast, etc.
That's what my friend did.</p>
<p>I have had 3 very solid years plus a very solid grounding in grade school. i had a pretty good teacher and have really improved especially in the last year. right now, i would say i am at a high 3 or maybe even a 4. i just wanna know what kinds of stuff to do like with these books?????</p>
<p>what kinds of stuff did u guys do? what kind of weekly plan do u guys who got a 5 have?</p>
<p>do a lot of oral practice along with accent and pronunciation.</p>
<p>read read read in spanish and do as many practice tests as you can. </p>
<p>work over the ones u got wrong and learn some strategies.</p>
<p>and its true, immerse urself in Spanish by watching telemundo, univision or other spanish channel, in order to get the pronunciation.</p>
<p>im a native speaker, so itll be embarrassing if i dont get a 5, lol.</p>
<p>i got a 5 working off of 4 years of spanish in school and purely off of the spanish books i was using in school (Triangulo and Gramatica, i think they were called). They teach to the AP exam and are really helpful. Also, practice the speaking parts of the exam as much as possible. For those parts its not really important to time your responses in my opinion, just make sure that you are talking fluid spanish for the full time length of each section (maybe a minute each?). It does not matter if you get cut off in the middle of a sentance, cause that is what happened to me during the whole exam.</p>
<p>I never used my prep books - they contained mostly grammar info, and there's not that much grammar on the test. Just practice writing, reading, and speaking a LOT, and you should improve a lot.</p>
<p>wait, normally, how many years of spanish are there before ap? for my area, foreign language progression goes 1, 2, ap, then whatevers after that ____</p>
<p>so trickysocksman, you only take 2 years of foreign language before the AP?
I would say that normally an AP is a level 5 course, but some schools teach it after completing level 3.</p>
<p>My district has AP courses after level 3.</p>
<p>most schools have you take spanish 1,2,3,4 then ap although a few do 1,2,3,then ap. Even with the ap class, at my son's school few got 4 or 5. Must have been the crappy teacher</p>
<p>No Tenthtimearound, the teacher may have been fine. The test is difficult to begin with, beside the fact that many native speakers take the test as well. (there are statistics on some obsure collegeboard site, but i seem to remember it being around 30% for the amount of hispanic test takers which is alread more than the percentage of 5's awarded)</p>
<p>Grammer is a HUGE part of the test so be sure to learn your tenses, proper accentuation, etc. And read A LOT of spanish history and political articles to prep you for the essays because you basically do a 3 document DBQ.</p>
<p>Ummm....what else....</p>
<p>Look at and take practice exams, look over the course description. Practice conjugating words, read books to enrich your spanish vocabulary. Practice formal and informal speaking, speaking clearly, and watch programs in spanish(for practice with the listening portion).</p>
<p>In short, be prepared to read, listen to, write, and speak the language when you sit for that test. If you can do all that then you're guaranteed a 5.</p>
<p>i had 3 years of spanish, and then i was in an AP spanish class for the 4th year (last year), but i had a terrible teacher who didn't teach us anything.</p>
<p>i was convinced i'd get a 2 on the ap exam. i went through the grammar section in the REA book, did quite a few listening questions from the Barron's book (the one with CD's) and some of from the REA CDs. we also used to watch tv shows in class once a week but i'd never understand anything and i started reading harry potter in spanish a month or so before the ap test. i'd read like 2-5 pages from my english version and then the same part from the spanish version. </p>
<p>oh and we did like 2 practice essays in the class overall all year (we really should have done more). you should try some past ap essay questions and maybe ask a spanish teacher at your school to look over and correct your response.</p>
<p>i ended up getting a 5, hurray! i think my reading comp and essays saved me. i suck at anything that requires listening or speaking. i'm in ap lit this year, and i still don't understand anything the teacher says when she talks in spanish. actually i don't understand anything we read in class either....lol. but don't worry, spanish lang reading comp is way easier, and way more straightforward. imagine the sat cr section but dumbed down for elementary school students except then translated into spanish which increases the difficulty level, haha.</p>
<p>actually its more like 2/3 of native-speakers/nonstandard students who take the exam. 55.2% reported their race/ethnicity as hispanic/latino. on the 2007 exam, approx 12% of all test-takers were students in the standard-group who got a 4 or 5. the percent of 5's was 4%. this means that unless you have an extremely good teacher who forces EVERYONE in class to speak, listen, hear spanish on a day-to-day basis OR you get lucky on test day OR you've been traveling to spanish-speaking countries all your life, ur chances of getting a 5 are very slim. but w/ a lot work, it IS doable!</p>
<p>I dont know about the poster above me (hannah..) but even though my teacher sucked just as much but i tried throughout the year to study spanish on my own (i read like 2 or 3 harry potter books in spanish w/o looking at a dictionary) i was still very lost on the exam. perhaps it was nerves, lack of preparation, or lack of confidence in myself, but i ended up w/ a 4. :/ i m disappointed b/c slacker native speakers in my school and everyone here (allegedly) got 5's. I sincerely doubt the credibility of some of these posters who claim 5's but hey, this is CC, where everyone has a 2100+ SAT and 5's on every AP exam. take everything w/ a grain of salt and dont be dissapointed if u dont get a 5. just do all you can now! foreign languages r one of the toughest AP's to self-study for b/c even practicing grammar/listening/speaking cannot earn u a 5. you need to be around ppl who can tell you that ur prounciation is off, or that what u wrote doesn't make any sense.</p>
<p>Anyway you could self-study with a tutor who would speak with you and correct your pronunciation? That would help you with both listening & speaking.....</p>
<p>hey. i am wondering if this is enough to get a 5. right now, without being cocky, i can honestly say i would prolly be at a 4. for a 5, i listen to BBC mundo every night usually with no trouble as i ofetn get general ideas and most specifics. i also write as much as i can and get speak practice through 1 on 1 every week for 3 hrs. in addition, i got an online course and am doing vocab and stuff. honestly, though, doing listening exercises in the books i have: the speaking seems slow. is it just me that i can adapt to it or is it just people not accustomed to hearing it or what?</p>