<p>I am a senior in high school and I was just wondering if it was possible to take two different language courses in college. I have been taking spanish in hs and i want to continue it. I know Russian, but I am slowly forgetting it, so I want to make sure I do not lose it. Will I have time to take the classes? I want to major in neuroscience, so I know that will be pretty heavy and I want to join a frat, which also takes up a lot of time. I understand each school is different and it depends on my study habits/ organization, but do you guys have any suggestions?</p>
<p>Definitely do not take two languages, especially since you don’t want to major in one of them. What is the point? Maybe taking one or two classes in each wouldn’t hurt, but if you are planning on taking both all 4 years in addition to getting a neuroscience degree…bad news bears.</p>
<p>It’s hard to tell without knowing the requirements for a neuroscience major. But there’s nothing stopping you from taking at least one class in Russian to see whether it’s your thing.</p>
<p>^ Russian is my native language, so I know it already, but I feel like I am losing and since I won’t have my mom to talk to in Russian, I might not be able to practice it. Can I minor in one language, but just take a few classes in another?</p>
<p>My school has a thing two nights a week where you go to some classroom or meeting room for like an hour and just talk in a specific language/practice whatever language you’re learning at the time. If you’re worried you might lose your Russian, why not just go to that (or something similar) every week or so. I would look in to that. Two languages a semester is a lot in and of itself, especially if you’re not majoring in either.</p>
<p>If you’re good at languages it probably wont be much of a problem. I’m taking 2 intensive classes at the moment (full year italian and a full year of french, but in 1 semester (twice as fast as your normal italian or french class)) which my adviser HIGHLY recommended I don’t do. For me it’s really not a problem at all.</p>
<p>Some schools don’t offer the schedule flexibility to take more than 1 though…mine does.</p>
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<p>You can always seek out other native speakers through the local community or Mixxer. If you take a class in Russian, you’re going to be with non-natives who had to start from scratch; you will probably be bored and make them feel uncomfortable (or resentful, they might think you’re taking your native language just to satisfy the “foreign” language requirement). You can then take the other language as a minor. You probably won’t have time for much else if you have the neuroscience major anyways.</p>
<p>I am also a Russian heritage-speaker, but I studied Japanese in high school. Now I go to a small LAC, where I am taking Biological Psychology, Computer Science, Japanese, and Russian. I am in the beginning Russian and the beginning Japanese class, because my LAC’s language classes are very demanding, and they rarely place anybody into an upper level.</p>
<p>I do find it challenging to take both Russian and Japanese. My Japanese class meets five times a day, and my Russian class meets times a week. There are numerous quizzes and tests every week, along with homework for every night.</p>
<p>Still, it’s possible. It takes a lot of commitment and extra time, and I have definitely found it to be a fulfilling experience. I didn’t know how to write going into the class, and now I do. I am also fine-tuning my grammar. However, there are times when I find the class to be boring, because I want to work on speaking but the other students are still struggling. The professor will usually avoid calling on me because they know I know the answer, but I still find the homework and grammar to be difficult. It’s interesting because since I’m a heritage speaker, what happens is that what I learn and what I think I know conflicts.</p>
<p>Trydno, no vozmozhno. Eclee y vac est esho vaprocee, sprasee menya.</p>
<p>^ harasho spaseba 
THanks guys for your suggestions</p>
<p>Simple</p>
<p>if u plan to do some linguistics/extensive language in college then yes</p>
<p>If not</p>
<p>one is good, and learn it well!</p>
<p>You could also try continuing Spanish, but take a Russian for Russian speakers class if your school offers it.</p>
<p>I think it’s possible. I plan on taking them both.</p>
<p>One of my majors is Russian. Spanish, I’m just going to take the language classes.</p>
<p>But the way I’m doing it is I’m starting Spanish in the Spring semester of my sophomore year. That gives me 5 semesters of the courses in it.</p>
<p>I just don’t see how you can really take both at the same time, unless you have a ton of AP/IB credits coming in. Here, Russian is 6 credits a week and Spanish is 5 for first year, so that would be 11 credits already.</p>
<p>I don’t think it’d be necessarily hard to take the two. They sound quite a bit different and use different alphabets, so that should help you from not getting confused.</p>
<p>Learning as many foreign languages as you can is a good thing.</p>
<p>I think you should definitely do this. Being trilingual is very advantageous when applying for anything and if you actually want to do it, there should be nothing holding you back. You can major in neuroscience and double minor in Russian and Spanish. If you are not sure you can do this, try asking an advisor at your college. I know some people taking three languages, Spanish, Portuguese and French. (one of them is their major).</p>
<p>Why not join/start a Russian club at your school?</p>
<p>Where are you going to college? Lots of schools now have language classes for heritage speakers…</p>
<p>It is mainly going to depend on schedule and what is required for major. Possibilities include that you can use upper level russian courses (I assume you would not be taking basic level) towards part of the gen ed requirements that might exist for your major in which case they could right into your schedule. It is simply going to depend on what you will need to take as far as normal schedule for your major and how well it will fit into that.</p>