<p>I'm in highschool now (senior) and I was wondering if anyone's had any experience with taking two languages in college. I take four now (Ancient Greek 4, Latin 6, French 1, and Egyptian Hieroglyphs 3), but I don't know how much harder/time consuming college language classes are. I want to take Japanese for sure, and am considering either Korean or German.</p>
<p>I plan on majoring in cognitive science or linguistics and possibly Japanese. I would not necessarily minor in the second language (depending on the courses required for the minor).</p>
<p>Yea my school’s really good for languages. It’s awesome getting to take languages at a young age that usually aren’t offered until later (some kids will graduate in Latin and Chinese 8 and Greek 6)</p>
<p>and to think I ever thought that 5 years of Latin is hard. I feel like such an monolingual American. I think the ancient languages are interesting though</p>
<p>It is doable. However it also depends on your college. Here the intro-language-classes mostly meet 5 times a week and assign a lot of work. In fact most language professors warn at the beginning that there’ll be as much as 2 hours of work for every day of class. Depending on how much you want to learn and how fast you learn it can be a lot less.
I’d definitely not start two languages the same year, rather one freshmen year and the other sophomore year, but that is ultimately up to you and how much you think you can handle. Since you are already taking that many languages you should probably be able to handle the work load.</p>