Summer courses to complete language requirement?

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<p>Hi,</p>

<p>I finished French IV as a high school sophomore and will be matriculating at Harvard this fall. I have not been able to test out of the language requirement, I am too rusty. I would prefer not to suck up 2 valuable courses with languages if it could be done elsewhere. Are there summer courses (abroad?) that I could take which would get me out of the language requirement?</p>

<p>Sorry if I sound rather negative about languages, they're just not my strong suit and I think they'd stress me out during the year. I could definitely deal with it over the summer.</p>

<p>Thanks for the advice!</p>

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<p>Well, what French course would you be placed into? You could probably fill it with just one semester.</p>

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<p>Yeah, you might be able to just take one semester and retake the test. You either have to take a full year of language or you can test out…but you can test out at any point, not just at the beginning.</p>