<p>What language are you guys thinking about taking? Any advice from upper classmen? I'd love to try something new (I took Spanish for four years in high school...).</p>
<p>yeah i took spanish for 4 yrs too. although I want to learn something new, i think it would be a waste not to finish learning spanish. advice appreciated.</p>
<p>I'm gonna take arabic (probably gonna be easier for me cuz I have been speakin it since the age of 1 but I never studied it formally). If you really want to try something totally new I suggest it. It is a beautiful language but requires hard work so be warned :)</p>
<p>^ I'm in the same boat. I'm going to take Mandarin Chinese- been speaking it since I learned to talk, but never studied it in school and thus my Mandarin ability is actually somewhat impaired. I figure it's probably going to be useful in the future (that and the fact that it's a bit unsettling to admit that you don't even really know your native language).</p>
<p>Yeah I agree with XRedcomet. Its kinda wierd speaking a language for your whole life and have trouble writing it properly.</p>
<p>yeah I guess people's language plans fall into the maintance of two, maybe three categories:</p>
<p>1) Finishing up learning what you started. This can be formal Spanish, French, etc, up to the AP level and beyond. (someone in my hall came in at 3rd year college Japanese and is just finishing that up too, so it really does happen at all levels)</p>
<p>2) Learn something you never learned formally, like one's native language. The little oral classes help a lot here (just to get speaking practice in).</p>
<p>3) Learn something entirely new, like....for me, greek or mandarin. Both look interesting, just for the heck of it.</p>