<p>Suggest some AP languages and maybe CollegeBoard will notice!!</p>
<p>AP Swahili
AP Afrikaans
AP Bosnian</p>
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<p>n o</p>
<p>AP Arabic
AP Portuguese
AP Bengali</p>
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<p>AP Icelandic
AP Estonian
AP Telugu
AP Dzongkha
AP Norwegian</p>
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<p>The ones I suggested are actually quite common in the world.</p>
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<p>AP 1337 5p34k.</p>
<p>There’s a huge difference between common in the world and common in US classrooms.</p>
<p>AP Arabic- would be really useful and fun to take. They should seriously consider it.
AP Portuguese
AP Japanese
Ap Russian</p>
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<p>o wait they already have AP Japanese. nvm</p>
<p>They also have AP Russian. What they don’t have is AP Klingon.</p>
<p>Bring back AP French Lit :O</p>
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<p>College Board would most likely only offer AP language exams for languages commonly taken in U.S. high schools; even though Arabic and Portuguese are relatively widespread languages, they are virtually nonexistent in US curriculum.</p>
<p>I don’t know what all the negativity is about. Lots of these language are spoken by international students and students of multicultural backgrounds. Japanese, Hebrew, and Chinese aren’t exactly that commonly either, but College Board still puts up with those. </p>
<p>Of course, I’d agree with Arabic, Portuguese, and Russian. Arabic is becoming a majorn language which americans should know. Portuguese actually IS taught at my school (public, 3,800 students), next to Spanish and French. As for Russian, well it’s just a major vehicle of literature.</p>
<p>I’d also like to see Farsi (major world language), Hindi/Urdu (we have lots of international students from India), Tagalog (same boat as Hindi), and either another classical language (Greek, Sanskrit, Coptic) or something exotic (Finnish, Swahili).</p>
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<p>Keneezy, read the post above yours.</p>
<p>AP Russian is currently being developed. </p>
<p>Japenese is somewhat commonly taught in US high schools. It’s got nothing on Spanish, or even German, but it is out there. Even though Chinese isn’t all that widely taught, it has a huge number of heritage and natives speakers, they outnumbered the “standard group” of non-native/-heritage test takers five to one in 2010. In fact, in that same year there were nearly as many native/heritage AP Chinese test takers as total AP German test takers. I don’t have any numbers for Hebrew, but you would be surprised how many Jews learn it for religious reasons.</p>
<p>Developing and administering tests are expensive, and since the CB is a business profit is their primary motive. If a language isn’t common in US classrooms or widespread as a heritage/native language, then you aren’t going to see an AP test for it. Classical or"exotic" languages such as Coptic or Finnish would never happen because there simply isn’t a demand. Also, the CB primarily serves Americans; internationals are more of a peripheral market, so the CB isn’t going to start designing tests aimed exclusively at them (Arabic, Urdu, etc) any time soon.</p>
<p>Yeah, my post was more of a linguist’s dream than a realistic one. Sorry about that.</p>
<p>About the Jews though, a lot of Muslim students learn Arabic for religious reasons too, but realistically speaking, that would be far off if the CB ever made that an AP test. Jews have been in America for hundreds of years, whereas Muslims are a relatively new group. </p>
<p>I still think that Portuguese is a good idea though. It’s at least as common as Japanese, though students may be more interested in Japanese, which has the “exotic” feeling. </p>
<p>German has been discontinued at many local schools where I live. However, offering German is an old American tradition. I do think it would be more prudent to modernize the curriculum since German just isn’t a world language anymore, whereas others are gaining traction. Again, this isn’t going to happen for many, many years.</p>
<p>Current ones:
English (duh), French, Spanish, German, Italian, Latin (not really), Russian, Japanese, Chinese</p>
<p>SAT IIs include (that AP don’t got):
Hebrew, Korean</p>
<p>What they should have:
Hindi (4th most spoken worldwide, India)
Urdu (often grouped with Hindi, but writing is totally different, Pakistan/India)
Arabic (5th, also a UN language!)
Bengali (6th, Bangladesh)
Portuguese (7th, Portugal/Brazil)
Punjabi (10th, India/Pakistan)
Tamil (19th, used in Asia/Oceania, India)
Cantonese/Yue (22nd, Hong Kong/Overseas Chinese)
Bahasa/Malay/Indonesian (fourth most populated nation, 180mil, Indonesia/Malaysia)</p>
<p>What they would’ve had 20 years ago:
Dutch (lol, tiny Netherlands)
Greek (economy is dead. Nobody studies poor Plato)
Romanian (Officially a romance language. Where’s the love?)
Swedish (roughly 8mil speakers now. California has 37 mil people)
Farsi/Persian (empire is gone. Sorry.)
Yoruba, Xhosa, Bantu, Afrikaans, Shona (languages of Africa, in the time when they depended on their European influences. Not anymore really)</p>
<p>What is actually useful in the US (because of immigrant populations)
Tagalog (Philippines)
Burmese (Myanmar)
Thai, Khmer, Hmong, Lao, Vietnamese (Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam)
Amharic, Somali (Ethiopia, Somalia)
Ukranian, Belerusian (Ukraine, Belarus)</p>
<p>Yes, I’m crazy and I like linguistics.</p>
<p>AP Hindi/ Hindu language and culture. Do you know how many Indians there are in America!? It’s crazy</p>
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<p>AP !Kung Language and Culture!</p>
<p>Bushpeople FTW</p>
<p>My district offers Spanish, French, German, Italian, Russian, Latin, and Mandarin Chinese but I’ll make the assumption that this is the same (or very similar) lineup for most other school districts in the United States.</p>
<p>The only AP language tests you see are languages that are common in US curriculum. Although I don’t exactly agree with Japanese being a common language in the US curriculum, it’s there nonetheless. Arabic is a very difficult language to learn and teach. As a result it’s not common in US curriculum. Although if they’re going to offer Japanese they should probably offer Arabic as well.</p>
<p>^^ German actually is a very important language, due to Germany status as the manufacturing power house in Europe. It has small roots in the us, but hop the pond and German is highly desirable among languages and looks great on european and uk cv’s, especially for business and medicine. </p>
<p>And if languages are your thing, I don’t think there is any better prep-language than german.</p>
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