<p>Does anyone have any prior experience of self studying AP French Lang? I know it is a really hard exam, like any other Foreign Language but since they won't be offering it at my school. I thought I could self study it. What do you guys think?</p>
<p>How long have you taken French? How proficient are you? As long as you find ease with speaking, reading, and writing, there’s little reason not to take it. Just take some practices and see how well you do. I’ve never self studied for an AP, but had my school not offered AP French I would have.</p>
<p>I also want to do it, starting from this summer and taking the AP test not next year, but senior year (I am currently a sophomore, next year junior). I have no experience besides 1st and 2nd grade, which counts for nothing. Is it possible?</p>
<p>Il est absolutement possible. Mon prof d’AP francais ne nous a rien appris, alors je devais faire beaucoup d’apprenant moi-meme (lisant le livre “Barrons,” repondant aux questions de reponses libres sur le site de College Board, regardant les films francais, etcetera).</p>
<p>A repondre a la question, si vous avez des techniques confidantes de parlant (par exemple, si vous avez deja pris deux or trois ans du francais au lycee), et vous etes capable de depenser vos temps a regarder religieusement les emissions francais/ecouter la musique francais (pour l’ecoutant et le parlant), vous serez d’accord, a mon avis. La grammaire et l’ecriture, vous pouvez le practiquer vous-meme, et vous pouvez lire des articles francais sur Internet pour le comprehension de lisant.</p>
<p>Mais, vous devez savoir que le “curve” est extremement difficile (126-160 ou 78.75% pour un 5) parce qu’il y a plusieurs d’etudiants natals qui prennent l’examen aussi. Si vous voulez faire toutes ces choses, vous devez commencer maintenant. Pours ces examens de langue, il ne faut pas qu’on perde ses temps!</p>
<p>Je souhaite que mes opinions et experiences puissent vous aider.</p>
<p>Aussi, je prendrai l’examen demain. Je pense que j’aille etre un peu decue si je ne recevrai pas un 5 parce que j’ai fait beaucoup d’efforts sur cet examen, si massifs que je n’ai pas etudie assez pour mon examen de l’histoire europeenne vendredi…</p>
<p>I have actually been told that taking a placement test in college might be a cheaper and more useful alternative to taking the AP Exam, since it’s so difficult and taking the college placement test can possibly give you more credit than taking the exam.</p>
<p>I do think, however, that it would be possible to teach yourself AP French for next
year if you really want to, especially if you already understand karaokemachine’s posts and felt the urge to add all the missing accents like I did. :)</p>
<p>I can understand what karaokemachine wrote… but it took me awhile to process. I would say a good 10 min. I probably wouldn’t be able to write that myself without extensive thought.</p>
<p>I would be in a bad position to take the AP exam, huh? lol. And this is with 3 years of French :/</p>
<p>Je ne sais pas.</p>
<p>Something I remember from middle school French</p>
<p>Taking the french AP test WITHOUT a teacher to help you is a very bad idea. You need somebody to teach you pronunciation, advanced phrases, look over your essays, etc. </p>
<p>Sure, you can learn how to conjugate verbs, increase your vocabulary and thus your reading comprehension, and improve your listening without a teacher, but it will be very difficult. It’s not a typical test that you can self study for.</p>
<p>Unless you are a native speaker I recommend against taking it. If you can’t read what karaoke you definitely need to study a bit more before considering taking the test.</p>
<p>I could actually understand what he said. (of course not every single detail, but I got it)
- Im only in French II
- Next year I’ll be in French III (Sophomore)
- I’ll only be taking it in Junior year
- I can still go to my French teacher for help, the only reason they won’t have it is because not enough people will sign up for it
- Im really good in French and I akm fluent in Portuguese so that kinda helps with the grammar
- What do you think now?</p>
<p>^Mdr, je suis une fille.
Si tu pourrais depenser le temps *chaque jour a apprendre le francais, je pense que tu puisse le faire. Quelle note veux-tu sur l’examen?</p>
<p>Je veux bien un cinq, mais mes amis qui ont deja pris l’examen on m’a dit que l’examen est tres tres difficile. Ais j’aime bien le francais, et maintenant, je ne sais pas quoi faire. (btw, that’s with two years of French 
)</p>
<p>Je pense que tu doive avoir le texte de Barrons et peut-etre un livre de francais 3 ou 4 (pour le grammaire/tenses des verbes). Si tu es discipline, tu reuissiras :)</p>
<p>Aussi, il est bon que tu maintiennes un journal en francais. C’est tres utile pour l’ecriture.</p>
<p>karaokemachine, i didnt study for euro either!! because i was too busy studying for french, which means more to me</p>
<p>^ I wish I was as confident as you for the French. I think I got a 4 
Now it’s time to get crack-a-lackin’ on the Euro!</p>
<p>a 4 is really good!! and yeah im just accepting that euro is not going to turn out well</p>
<p>Oh come on, it’s not that difficult. Study, study, study!</p>
<p>I did independent study which is basically self-study, but I got high school credit for turning in 3 essays each semester to the French teacher and showing her an outline of what I was planning to do and what I did.</p>
<p>If you have had prior exposure (a fairly descent amount) to French, it is definitely possible to self-study. It takes hard work and diligence, but it completely possible. It is not the normal AP Psych joke self-study. You will have to study a lot depending on your current level of French.</p>
<p>Bonne chance. C’est tout que je peux dire. Mais si on “immerse” soi-meme en francais, c’est possible.</p>
<p>(Geez, my French has been slowly deteriorating since I took the AP test 
)</p>
<p>^I think “s’immerser” is the verb meaning “to immerse oneself.” Though I’m not sure if literally immersing oneself in a liquid and immersing oneself in a language requires the same verb.</p>