Doubling up on foreign language in HS.

mathmom
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:35:46 +0000

I’m impressed with your daughter. I don’t think there is really a right or wrong answer here. I think she should take the languages with the best teachers and take at least one language at the AP level. French is likely to be easy with Spanish as a background. (At least I found Italian incredibly easy coming in speaking fluent French.) I found Mandarin impossible. I love the writing, but I am tone deaf. Figuring out a way to do all three languages will certainly make her stand out.

If she’s got the time I agree that studying first year language at a college is a lot more efficient than high school. (Generally at least two years of high school material if not three will be covered in one year.)