<p>I’m having the same problems as you, except we’re on trimesters. It’s the first year they offer it, and it’s offered the first two trimesters…which means you go a trimester cold then take the AP test. Which is stupid. You take it after 4 Spanish courses, which are 2 trimesters long = 8 trimesters = 2 1/3 years. I’ve taken longer than that, though, since I came from a different school - I took 3 in middle school (we learned the same thing they teach in High School here) and 1 my freshman year. Plus, my family is half Puerto Rican. I’m not a native speaker, but I can understand dialect and idiom well. Our teacher doesn’t really err SPEAK spanish. It’s a little worrisome. So far this year, we’ve only done 40 pages of the textbook…:/</p>