<p>I love the French language and I am rather bored in French II. I wanted to skip it, but I ended up spending only minimal time over the summer on French when I planned to immerse myself in it. Unfortunately, the French teacher situation at my school may complicate my aspirations to skip a year: I didn't like last year's teacher until she went to Germany for a year (because of her husband's job), and then we got two crappy replacement teachers who are hated by nearly everyone at my school. I don't know who's teaching which classes next year, but I think I'm going to stick the year out in II, cause the III teacher is so horrible that excellent students are dropping it. Btw, I'm in French II my junior year because I was homeschooled before last year.</p>
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<p>Has anyone skipped a year of a high school language? I'm tempted to just spend a lot of time reading French books (I've got a bunch), but I know I need to be hearing and speaking it as well. My dad's been buying French in Action stuff lately because my sister will be teaching herself at home; I'm not sure if I should dive into that program or stick with other stuff. Advice, anyone...?</p>
<p>look ahead in the book you've got, if you already know the material, switch up. if you don't, learn it and switch up and prove to your teacher that you know it by talking about switching up in french using all those words and stuff from ahead. </p>
<p>if you already know the material, there's no use and staying in the class if you aren't learning anything new. </p>
<p>if you're just bored and the class isn't going fast enough for you then that's different.</p>
<p>I wouldn't skip French III. My teacher tried to convince me to skip French II, but explained that there's too much grammar in French III to skip the year entirely.</p>
<p>I skipped German 2 - as a freshman I took German 1, and am now taking German 3. It wasn't too hard of a transition (though 2 is supposed to be the grammar year for us!), just took some studying over the summer. Talk to the French 4 teacher, he/she should be able to give you good advice. It all depends on how much time you are willing to put into it - if at all possible, speak French at home with your parents! :-)</p>
<p>i went from french 2 to french 3 in between semesters at my school. but I had a perfect average in the class... then I switched schools and the language classes got really hard an I went back to french 2.</p>
<p>I was the top student in French 2 by a long shot, then I skipped to French 4 and I slowly got so behind everyone it was unbelievable. My teacher didn't notice at first, but this year in AP she does! Hmmm... maybe I should actually study. :)</p>
<p>I skipped French III my sophomore summer of high school. It wasn't that hard, though it took a year or two for my speaking to catch up to everyone else's. It's a lot of grammar, which actually makes it ideal for self-study.</p>
<p>i wanted to skip french III but my teacher discouraged me from doing it because he said i'd need someone to teach me how to properly pronounce everything...kinda weird, i guess.</p>
<p>mcz: I would assume so lol, I'm guessing you meant Spanish III. </p>
<p>It's good that your getting materials in order I guess to compensate for what you want to skip, but I being 'bored' in a class doesn't sound like much of an explanation to skip an entire year of foreign language. Maybe the term you meant was it isn't challenging for you, something that sounds more reasonable. I don't know if you were in French I last year(and being your first year of French), but I definitely wouldn't recommend leaving a class the year after an introductory year(I'm assuming it isn't your first). Hope it all works out for you.</p>
<p>I doubled up and took Spanish 3 and 4 in the same year... and I really just wished I'd of skipped Spanish 3. I learned everything we did in there the first few weeks of Spanish 4. So if you have the opportunity, I'd say skip it and catch up on the vocab on your own time.</p>