<p>gxing, is your friend's name Conan?</p>
<p>TheDude, I'm not sure... Penn doesn't really release many statistics regarding its joint programs unfortunately =\
Are you a native speaker of Spanish?</p>
<p>Nope, I'm not a native speaker. I'm trilingual though, so I hope that helps?? </p>
<p>Huntsman is a probably a longshot chance for me since Spanish has always been my weakest subject (and our teachers were never steller). </p>
<p>We could probably still do a double major with International Relations and Business, Huntsman or no, right?</p>
<p>haha, lishnik, the reason i say that those three types of people are the laziest is because think of all the symbols each of those fields have! lol they're too lazy to write things out the long way, so there are so many shortcuts haha</p>
<p>TheDude, what's your third language? (If you say Chinese, I'm going to laugh, 'cause I'm in the same situation.)</p>
<p>Yeah, you could do a double major with International Relations and Business if you're not in Huntsman. The only thing is that you might need to take extra classes because Huntsman integrates some classes together, and you probably have to spend more money on the classes? Whereas with Huntsman you get 2 majors for the price of one? I'm not sure on that, so don't take my word for it.</p>
<p>hmm, about being bilingual, trilingual, etc....when do you think you can claim to be ---lingual? cuz i speak english and thai, and i've been taking french for about 5 years now so i speak french pretty well, and now i'm learning japanese. wen people ask me how many languages i speak, i'm never sure if i can count french or not....</p>
<p>lol, this is just my random musings...</p>
<p>Speaking languages is different from being fluent in them...</p>
<p>Being fluent is being able to speak without thinking in that language.</p>
<p>mmm, so it's like when you can automatically respond in that language w/o thinking???</p>
<p><em>now off to ponder as to whether i'm fluent in french or not...lol jk jk (^_^)</em></p>
<p>i dont necessarily agree..i speak russian because its my familys native language, but i only lived in latvia for a year...when i was younger i used to make a lot of mistakes because a lot of the time i would think in english because it was easier for me with more complicated things...but i still considered myself fluent...its nice now though i pick up on a lot more and after a couple three week trips back to Latvia my Russian is much better nowadays</p>
<p>fluent:
1) Able to express oneself readily and effortlessly
2) Flowing effortlessly; polished</p>
<p>courtesy of dictionary.com</p>
<p>If you have to think in English to translate, you're not doing it effortlessly....</p>
<p>haha, gotta love dictionary.com ^_^ along with wikipedia lol</p>
<p>lol i dream in french.. is that normal?</p>
<p>considering ive never been to france / france isnt my native language i always thought it was slightly bizarre..</p>
<p>i also talk to myself in french.. and swear in french (or chinese sometimes).. but i feel like my english is getting worse and worse .. that would explain my 620 in verbal sigh..</p>
<p>kliuless, how did you know?</p>
<p>Haha I live in NJ, and my mom reads the Chinese newspapers...</p>
<p>She told me about this one Chinese guy who got into Huntsman, and he was giving discussions/lectures on how to get in to the college of your choice.
And she was telling me how he was so "li hai" (Mandarin for great) in all his stats..</p>
<p>When I did an overnight stay at Penn, I actually met Conan in person... </p>
<p>So when you started talking about your friend's attributes, I guessed he was Conan. (Because your location is NJ and you have a Chinese name in your CC account)</p>
<p>Haha, nice one. Where in NJ are you from? You can PM me.</p>
<p>is it any different if your native language is english and you are not Chinese and you want to study chinese at huntsman? Just wondering because these boards say that Chinese is the hardest one to get into..</p>
<p>you have to be able to have a good understanding of your language, but you need not be wonderful at them. </p>
<p>Chinese is the hardest to get into because in addition to the applicants you get from overseas with very diverse backgrounds, the students, such as those applying from NJ, all have pretty good grasps of the language itself from years of Chinese school. Thus, an applicant has to extremely sucessful in distinguishing himself/herself from the other applicants with similar language levels, stats and background. The same goes for Spanish actually, which is the next popular language.</p>
<p>dw - none of that is weird lol. i've had a few dreams in french (and a few in japanese too, which was kinda weird considering i've only started learning the language this year lol) and sometimes when i'm really surprised or excited, i can't always control what language comes out of my mouth lol</p>
<p>i wish i was like that.....i ran out of foreign language classes in 9th grade</p>
<p>when are the huntsman language proficiency tests going to be mailed? =(
i'm getting really anxious, because last year's Huntsman ED'ers received a letter telling them they would receive the test around Nov. 23~26</p>
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