Doubling up on foreign language in HS.

Hanna
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:46:17 +0000

If you’re going to take an especially challenging language (Russian, Arabic, an Asian language), I think it’s smart to start it as early as possible so that you have more opportunities for repetition. Even if the high school program isn’t rigorous enough to allow you to start literature courses at the beginning of college, the repetition of fundamentals over the course of years will make an accelerated course in college a relative breeze, so that you’re ready for literature much sooner than your classmates.