<p>I am currently a sophomore in high school. I am going to apply to schools like Stanford, MIT, Harvard... and i know that they have some requirement for taking foreign languages. So i am planning to take a second language. Because i am from Hong Kong and i speak Cantoness, can I take Mandarin as my second language? Plz help.</p>
<p>If you can read or write Chinese, American colleges will not require you to take a third language. You should read carefully what the schools require.</p>
<p>okay…thnanks</p>