<p>I'm a h.s. junior and am currently taking French IV and Latin I, which are both college coursse through st. john's university. Next year I will be taking AP French and Latin II. When I go to college, I would like to take French and Latin along with Italian. I am playing on majoring in International relations/politics and philosophy. Will it be possible to take those three languages? I figure that I will only have to take French for a year and Latin for two years.</p>
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<p>I am only taking two right now, French and Vietnamese, but the language interference is a little rough sometimes. I plan on taking Mandarin at some point so I will be in the same spot that you are in. Given, you are taking all the same "family" of languages with Latin being the root. I would imagine that it wouldn't be that bad except for the interference. Just be prepared to mentally seperate them I guess.</p>
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<p>I think taking more than one language would be required of you if you major in international business/relations like you're planning. At most schools, regardless of your major, you would have take a foreign language in order to earn a degree. </p>
<p>When you start looking for schools to apply to, (if you haven't already started already) actually visit the schools' website and see if they have an online course catalog so you can gauge degree requirements before applying.</p>
<p>An example of an online course can be found here (okay it's from my schools' website, but it contains a plethora of information) at <a href="http://undergrad-catalog.buffalo.edu/index.shtml%5B/url%5D">http://undergrad-catalog.buffalo.edu/index.shtml</a></p>
<p>Foreign language, to me, is the most rewarding subject I've ever studied. I'm taking German and Spanish right now, and considering all three of your languages would be in the romance family with Latin being the root language, it's most definitely possible. The only problem with taking 2+ languages is the amount of time that it takes to learn and study them.</p>
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<p>Thanks for all the replies!, I am not concerned about how difficult it will be because as the above post said, they are all romance languages. My main question was do colleges allow a person to take 3 languages at a time, if none of the languages are their major?</p>
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<p>I know Georgetown does. My friend did Hebrew, German, and French last semester. He is majoring in comp. lit.</p>
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<p>Seems to me like it's doable if you have enough time to fit them in and you're good with language. Especially since they're similar.</p>
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<p>my friend did Latin, Ancient Greek, Spanish and French senior year. Now that we're in college, he's doing hieroglyphics, and I think he plans to do Sanskrit soon. If languages are your thing, you can definitely do it.</p>
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<p>I'm a math major and music performance minor (which is equivalent to another major in hours where I go), and I intend to study at least three languages in college: German, Russian, and Chinese. I'm going to take German and Russian for no more than a year though. I don't know how it's going to work out, but I intend to study abroad in Austria, Russia, and China too. I'll get to at least two of those for sure.</p>
<p>So, yeah, go for it.</p>
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<p>I know a Classics Major who took ancient Greek, Latin, and Coptic last quarter. It is possible if one has a good work ethic.</p>
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<p>Thanks for all the replies, I can't wait to go to college!</p>
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<p>I took 3 years of French and 2 of Latin in HS, and now take Italian at college for a minor - 4 beginning classes and 6 advanced. You'll pick it up quite easily. I bet you could read Italian right now.</p>
<p>But it will take work to not make simple mistakes, because sometimes languages can be so close that it's hard to differentiate.</p>
<p>Next fall, I hope to be starting Russian, Arabic or Korean. I need to pick!</p>
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<p>My plan is to take a year of Spanish, a semester of Italian(/whatever the language where I go abroad) at school, a semester of that while abroad, and I'm considering a Latin minor. It fits nicely into my schedule, even as I ponder a double major in English and English Education.</p>
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<p>I don't know anyone who's taking 3, but I do know a number of people who are taking two. Two is feasible, three shouldn't be too bad.</p>
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<p>I'm taking greek, latin, and portuguese, but I'm starting to alternate them. Once you reach a certain level with dead languages, you can take a break without too much damage, whereas spoken languages are harder to keep up without practice.</p>
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<p>Thanks for all the replies! :)</p>
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<p>I searched and found the OP asked the exact same question I had. I really want to take French, German, and Mandarin as many years as possible for each and like the OP I want to major in International Studies with business and/or art history minor. I am worried even if I take max credits every semester there won’t be room for all of them given the required classes. I have hope after reading this thread. If for some reason I can’t take all of them I can’t decide which one to drop. It was hard narrowing down to those 3 given how much I love travel and languages!</p>
<p>If anyone has any new insight or answers I would love to hear! Or for those of you in the same boat, trouble deciding, how did you narrow them down?</p>
<p>why are you guys taking so many languages? for a line on your resume?</p>
<p>if you take an introductory course in like 12 languages, is that gonna do anything for you?</p>
<p>@nspeds what kind of requirements does the Gtown comp lit programme have? surely he must be concentrating heavily in one foreign language, so that he may be able to read original texts and write critical essays in it?</p>
<p>edit: trololol nvm too late. i guess i’ll never find out about the craziness of the gtown clit programme</p>
<p>I have completed college-level French and German, and I am still working on American Sign Lanugage, Spanish, and Italian at my junior college. I’ve taken as few as two and as many as four languages in one semester, so it’s definitely possible but not for everybody. I have some ability but mostly a whole lot of interest in languages, so it makes it worth it for me.</p>
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