<p>Natives use ir + a + infinitive.</p>
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<p>is there a penalty for guessing wrong on the listening portion?</p>
<p>i have NO idea.. i mean yo no tengo ninguna idea</p>
<p>but i guess so. ask the prompter before the test or something.</p>
<p>anyways im not planning on passing... really im lucky if i get a 2. this really is a beastly test. but then again i didnt really study.</p>
<p>in some ways i thought self-studying all year would be good... you can practice your grammar a lot (our class had virtually no grammar prep whatsoever).</p>
<p>so if you reallly want to take this on (it's a FOUR hour test btw... like the SAT but all in spanish and no math portion)... i suggest:
1. get a bi monthly (or preferably a weekly) tutor who can speak with u in spanish for at least an hour (continuously) per session.
2. take 1 full-length practice test per month and review your wrong answers (e.g. from sept-april you'd have 8 practice tests) (4 hours per test)... im sure you can find 8 full practice tests if you look hard enough.
3. read the spanish newspaper (e.g. bbc mundo) once a week (3-4 articles). preferably on the topics of culture, spanish-national news (venezuela, argentina, chile, mexico, espana), and global warming (medio ambiente). summarize EACH article in at least half a page per article. (that should help you for informal writing)
4. watch an hour of spanish news per week (no subtitles/closed caption!)
5. watch spanish-only movies.. e.g. pan's labyrinth, voces inocentes (AMAZING)... etc... write a summary of each movie (at least 2 pages)... this could be your self-prescribed summer homework
6. make a sparknotes-like 'cheat sheet' for all grammar rules, including irregular verbs. (summer homework)</p>
<p>but that is only if you want a 3 on the test (lol im serious)</p>
<p>because, most of the test takers (or at least half) are native spanish speakers who know their language better than you ever will.</p>
<p>if you're still thinking about taking the test and self-studying, i commend you for your bravery. good luck.</p>
<p>6b. study spanish transition words (e.g. tambien, aunque, ... etc.)
and yes im aware tambien has an accent mark above the e, im lazy.</p>
<p>du du du....so I don't think I did HORRIBLY on this....I REALLY REALLY hope I passed....</p>
<p>Thankfully I took my college's online spanish placement exam and I'll be starting at Spanish 301 in the fall...so there's some nice validation! =)</p>
<p>I would take a 3 and jump for joy!! :D No AP class, no AP teacher....just pure desire and passion to practice the language!</p>
<p>You have to pay really close attention to the listening section. This year, there was some music crap in the background of one of the selections that spoke really really really really FAST! The music was very distracting and screwed me over for the majority of that passage. </p>
<p>I put most of my attention into other ap tests (bio and calc) and got a 2 in Spanish. My teacher sucked, and I had the 4th highest grade in my class. Can you imagine what the rest of the kids (non native speakers) got?</p>
<p>the listening and speaking are the most important parts to study for. The reading passages are relatively straight forward, and the fill int he blanks are basically just common phrases that you encounter in normal converstations, like how there is a "personal a" before a persons name and such.
Got a 5 without studying outside of school, but i had the best teacher ever too...</p>
<p>ahhhhhhhhh sweeet sweeeet victory!!! =)</p>
<p>I got a 4 through self-studying for the AP Spanish Language exam!!!! AHHHHH!!!</p>
<p>=D</p>
<p><em>happy dance</em></p>
<p>I'd like to make a shout out...
I'm aiming for a 5 in the may AP Spanish Exam.</p>
<p>Also,
I am going to self study AP Spanish lit!
An horror stories or success stories to help me know what to do or not do?</p>
<p>Yeah, any advice appreciated here as well.</p>
<p>I find that BBC Mundo website to be really useful for reading, and this one [Univision</a> Videos - Musicales, TV, Autos, Cine, Noticias y mas.] to be phenomenal for listening.</p>
<p>HI, I will be taking my AP Spanish Test soon, what tips can you give me. Don’t worry about writing a book about them, I am more than open to take your advice on it.
Thanks a lot!</p>
<p>Since you’re low on time:
take a full length practice test and notice which sections you have difficulty in; work on those.
Make a ‘cheat sheet’ of grammar charts
watch the news and a couple movies in spanish (no subtitles); preferably one movie in the standard mexican accent (I recommend Maria llena eres de gracia) and one in a different accent (Machuca or pans labyrinth or voces inocentes)
write up a page summary for both
this might sound lame but watch the news in English and translate it verbally into spanish</p>
<p>Hello southeast titan
I have taken spanish for 4 years, I am a sophomore in HS and i want to take the AP Spanish Language exam at the end of this year. I am in spanish 5, having skipped spanish 4.
How did you do on the exam?</p>
<p>I’m pretty much completely self taught in French and I’m taking the AP French exam this May. I used Assimil which may be too basic for you at this point, but what I recommend is watching a ton of Spanish TV, finding speaking partners on websites like sharedtalk.com and interpals.net, and reading whenever you can.</p>