US foreign languages

I live in India. I have been learning Telugu, Hindi, English since forever. In my 9th and 10th grade I studied these three languages In 11th I took French. I will be taking French in 12th too.

Telugu and Hindi are not foreign languages to me but I think they are in US education system. I don’t know much about his.Some colleges mentioned required coursework.So, can I consider these two as foreign languages coursework?

It depends. If the primary language of instruction at your school is Hindi, then English would be considered the foreign language, and vice versa.

The language of instruction is English.

You’ll give your transcripts and they’ll be evaluated. However, if you need to self evaluate for public universities, you’d be able to say you studied Telugu and Hindi for 5+ years and French for 2 years, with English checked as “English”.
On the CommonApp, you’ll be able to choose up to two native languages and evaluate your proficiency in one other.

Unless they change it for 2016-2017, “native” language is not an option. One can list up to five languages and categorize them as follows:
• First Language
• Speak
• Read
• Write
• Spoken at Home

One can use any or all of those 5 categories for any or all languages.

^well, theoretically but you couldn’t really put down you have 5 “first languages”. Two is the most, logically speaking, for First Language.

I’ve said this elsewhere on the forum, but when I applied to schools, I listed 3 first languages - the first language of my mother, the first language of my father, and the language of the country in which I was born. I’m sure some linguistics expert could narrow it down further, but since my first word, mama, is identical in all 3 languages, I just went with that. It didn’t seem to hurt my results. :slight_smile:

:slight_smile: okay, I see. :slight_smile: