<p>See, it seems like every person on here is taking way more advanced levels of foreign language than me or 95% of the people I know at my school. I'm going to be a Junior taking Spanish 3, which seems fine to me, but it seems like most people who are juniors are taking AP Spanish or AP whatever language they are doing.</p>
<p>I get the CC contains a lot of students who are above and beyond the average student, but how are all of these people able to be taking Spanish 2 or French 2 in 9th grade? The only people at my school who take Spanish 2 (sometimes 3) in 9th grade are native Spanish speakers. Everybody else, regardless of how smart they are takes Spanish 1 freshman, Spanish 2 sophomore, Spanish 3 (Core or Honors) junior year, Spanish 4 or AP Spanish senior year. At my middle school they do offer something called intro to Spanish as a trimester course (I never took it), but it didn't let you place out of Spanish 1. Spanish is the only foreign language at my school, but they are offering French next year for the first time.
Point being, how is it that almost every person on here takes the 2nd year of a foreign language there freshman year, and 3rd there sophomore, and 4th year during junior year. Nobody at my school who isn't a native speaker does that.</p>
<p>well in my school, the 8th graders start Spanish 1, freshman is Spanish 2, Sophomore is split into Honors spanish 3 and spanish 3 and then the AP stuff in junior and senior</p>
<p>At my daughter’s middle school, they start learning a language in 6th grade. At the end of 8th grade, the teacher then recommends which kids can start at the “Foreign Language 2” level as a freshman.</p>
<p>Every school system is different, but generally if you start Spanish in middle school, you are placed into a higher level in high school. At my school, new students take a placement test and are placed accordingly.</p>
<p>Well, in my area, students are allowed to obtain Spanish 1 credit in middle school if they take two classes of Spanish (seventh and eighth grade). However, it’s by no means standard, and most kids still wait for high school. Many students on here could also have block scheduling (I personally have this) which allows students to take the following:</p>
<p>Freshman: Spanish 1 and 2
Sophomore: Spanish 3 Honors and 4 Honors
Junior: Spanish 5 Honors/AP (not sure which) and AP Spanish
Senior: more AP Spanish</p>
<p>My kids elementary school taught French and Spanish to every student through 5th grade and then focused on one or the other through 8th. When those students enter 9th grade they are usually ready for Spanish or French II.</p>
<p>If it makes you feel any better, I took Spanish II as a junior. A lot of people get ahead because their middle schools offer foreign language classes.</p>
<p>At my school, you can choose to take Spanish in 7th and 8th grade. If you do well enough in those classes, you are placed into Spanish 2 in 9th grade. But I went to a small private Catholic school, and I’m going to the town’s public high school now. We have to take a placement test to see if we are ready for Spanish 2.</p>
<p>I took Spanish in 7th and 8th grade even though I knew I wasn’t going to in high school xDD But in 7th grade, we got a new Spanish teacher and she wasn’t very good at teaching. We didn’t even finish half of Spanish 1 at the end of 8th grade xD And the class was so disorganized. The only people who got into Spanish 2 in 9th grade were native speakers.</p>
<p>But I’m taking French and Chinese (both of which my middle school didn’t offer) in 9th grade, so I honestly don’t care xD</p>
<p>Oh, and at my school, the AP languages are 5th year courses. Except for Chinese, since it’s all online.</p>
<p>In my school, French/Spanish 1 is taken in middle school. Plus a lot of native Spanish/Chinese speakers choose to credit by exam Spanish/French 1,2,3 in order to go into AP.</p>
<p>At my middle school we got to choose from french, spanish, or italian and we would take that language for three years. In high school if you were good / are smart then you’d be in 2 honors of what language you chose during middle school. If you were kinda smart then you’d go into level 2. And no offense, if you were on the dumber side or wanted to change your language, then you would start at level 1. I’m a sophomore in 3 honors and I’m going into Italian 4 honors next year and AP Italian senior year. One kid in my class is a junior and another one is a senior. Also some kids are native Spanish speakers at my school. Some of them take Spanish and Italian bc they’re very similar if you already know one. They take a test and can be placed into any level, even AP.</p>
<p>In my town, you’re taught Spanish from 3rd-5th grade before having a choice between that and French in middle school. If you did well enough, you could take an Honors class as a freshman. I didn’t take a language in middle school because I had a class called Pullout Support (it’s a class for those with an IEP) which replaced a language class. Like others in this thread, I’m a junior who is about to complete Spanish 2 (with a class of mostly freshmen), and I’m not going to take a language next year. I’ve always found Spanish to be annoyingly tedious, and my teacher (who admittedly is highly attractive) cannot teach to save her freakin’ life. Lol :P</p>
<p>My school is 7-12 and you’re placed in an Intro to Language class based on your choice in 7th grade. People who do well get to start Level 1 in the 8th grade while everybody else does it to the 9th grade. </p>