<p>On the off chance you don’t get in everywhere you apply, I’m sure you will end up with a 6 figure job @ minimum somewhere in foreign relations.</p>
<p>haha lol languagefreak you wanna teach me Chinese?</p>
<p>May I ask what you got on your language AP’s languagefreak?
Also, do you think learning Spanish was easy since you already knew Italian–people always say how similar they are and I am pretty good at Spanish and wanted to give Italian a try.
Also, what was the AP Italian exam like? I know this may seem like a stupid question considering your fluency in the language, but I was just wondering because I am considering doing an intensive/self-study/Rosetta Stone thing so I might be able to take the AP next May. What do you think?</p>
<p>Never mind about my AP Italian problems–I just read where it’s being discontinued and the 2008-09 year was its last.
How sad</p>
<p>Also, Marry Me?</p>
<p>@james28, I was lucky enough to actually get 5s on all the exams I’ve taken. Here’s what I’ve taken and when I took it:
Freshman Year:
French Language
French Literature
Spanish Language
Italian Language and Culture
Sophomore Year:
Spanish Literature
English Language
Junior Year:
Chinese Language
Latin: Vergil
Latin Literature (I was planning on taking this next year, but I heard it was being discontinued)
English Literature</p>
<p>To answer your question about the exam, even though you took it back, it would be hard for me to say how the exam was. I mean, I honestly consider myself to be a native speaker of three langauges (Italian, French, and English), because I have been speaking them all with my parents since I was a baby. Also, a good 50% of these collegeboard exams is luck, so I consider myself to be very lucky. Also, I am extremely blessed to have parents that can afford to support my interest in languages. I’m not rich rich, but I’m not destitute either, so I am extremely grateful for what I’ve been given. </p>
<p>@Tilgaham, just tell me where to be and when to be there, babe ;)</p>
<p>Absolutely, you should send every single one of your scores. I wish you the best at your top choice schools.</p>
<p>I’m genuinely amazed at the work ethic you’ve demonstrated by learning those languages. I can speak from experience – learning a foreign language to the point of fluency is not an easy task (I spent a year abroad in Japan).</p>
<p>Also, out of curiosity, what do you plan to major in? Or any sense of what kind of job you would like to have?</p>
<p>can I trade lives with you languagefreak?!
so let me ask you this–what was AP Spanish Lit like? I’m taking AP Spanish Language next year, and don’t know much about the Lit exam
…btw, I love languages too, but can only speak 1.75 (not all the way there on Spanish!)…and I know the sign langauge alphabet! So I’m jealous…</p>
<p>^ I know I self- taught myself Spanish and french and I thought that was a big deal…
This kid is super human.</p>
<p>i think you should
for spanish i am on your boat…i took spanish last year and got a 740…lower then yours but since then i have been watching spanish telenovelas and chatting with people in spanish lol…i thought i was the only one to do so because of increasing my score</p>
<p>i am fluent, and i am going to take the listening one for spanish
hey since you abviously have the talent for languages, take the tests</p>
<p>have you considered Georgetown University’s school of languages and linguistics??
you would be perfect for any school but Georgetown would love you</p>
<p>my only concern is that since your parents do speak Italian and French…they do not have as big of a value as your German, Chinese, LAtin, and Spanish scores will have</p>
<p>usually people do not suggest you to take SAT’s II in your native language…is French your native language??
best of luck and i am sure you will go to an amazing school</p>
<p>by the way i am jealous!!! ;)</p>
<p>I thought I’d add a little spice to your thread.The responses here can be so…dry ;)</p>
<p>@wittywonka, I’m definitely going to at least minor in Japanese, my next language of study after German. I’m going to major in something to do with linguistics.</p>
<p>@james28, the Spanish Literature exam was pretty brutal, I’m not going to lie. That’s why I waited til soph year to take it. There’s a required reading list that is available on the CB website, which is pretty extensive. Just like pretty much every other AP exam, there’s a mult choice section and a free response section. In the MC they ask questions about the required reading as well as giving passages to read and analyze. The free response was TOUGH, with poetry analysis, thematic analysis, and text analysis. The poetry analysis is pretty straightforward, just analyzing a poem. For the thematic analysis essay, I was asked to analyze a given theme in a one of the books on the reading list (I forget which…), but that was tricky. I think there’s another type of thematic essay question type, but I’m not sure. Then the text analysis was a given passage from another book on the required reading list that I had to analyze, etc. in all honesty, I only took this exam because I have read numerous books in spanish to begin with. It is a very difficult exam to self-study.</p>
<p>@mar1ami, I am looking at Gtown, specifically the linguistics school like you said. It’s definitely on the list lol.</p>
<p>@Tilgaham, haha yeah I know. They can be repetitive, but they’re also invaluable.</p>
<p>Georgetown Linguistics + their IR program+ their convenient location=The government and companies wont be able to keep their hands off of you.</p>
<p>Just a thought :D</p>
<p>have you tried to study Farsi and Hindi? Farsi is big now a days and it is easy to learn
unfortunatly those are the languages i know but the SAT’s don’t offer them.</p>
<p>Arabic, Gaelic, and Esperanto seem like interesting languages to learn.</p>
<p>lol if ur luking for hard language to learn, learn korean. superhard. what state r u from? im just curious if you’re from like private school from boston or just like any other public school.</p>
<p>@ all, lol I’m just focusing on trying to begin Japanese for now…I haven’t quite decided what’s next. We shall see.</p>
<p>@ College-goer, I live in Massachusetts and go to a private school lol.</p>
<p>Question.</p>
<p>Did you have a more rigorous than usual middle school?</p>