<p>As a non-native speaker, but one who took four years of high school spanish, would it be difficult to complete a spanish minor. Are the majority of people spanish native speakers, and if so, does this make it too difficult to succeed in the classes?</p>
<p>Also, I'm fairly sure i got a 4 or 5 on the AP test. would this allow me to sign up for spanish 4 at my CalSo, even though my scores will not be reported yet?</p>
<p>Here is the department’s recommendation on placement into Spanish language courses:</p>
<p>[Course</a> Offerings & Placement |](<a href=“http://spanish-portuguese.berkeley.edu/undergraduate/course-offerings-lower-division/]Course”>http://spanish-portuguese.berkeley.edu/undergraduate/course-offerings-lower-division/)</p>
<p>If you do place into Spanish 4, then the minor in Spanish would require you to complete seven courses (4, 25, and five upper division courses). How easy that would be depends on how many course slots your have free in your eight semester schedule, which depends on how many courses or units your major requires and how many additional breadth courses you would have to take.</p>
<p>You should be able to enroll in Span 4 right now. When you get your actual AP score and it’s a 5, switch over to Span 25.</p>
<p>It’s not too difficult to minor in Spanish. Once you complete Span 25 you only need five upper-division classes in the department. I would say that 60-70% of Spanish majors/minors are native or heritage speakers, but as long as you keep up it won’t be too intimidating. (Fluency doesn’t equal critical reasoning ability that’s needed to ace an exam or paper!)</p>