<p>@Faultystart have you learned the alphabets yet? Make sure you learn both Hiragana and Katakana before you start learning words and phrases. Make sure you learn how to pronounce ます because it is a common verb ending and most self-studiers pronounce it incorrectly…!</p>
<p>I learned Japanese for a year. I gave up.</p>
<p>@Faultystart are you already in school?</p>
<p>@Spiral7 I’ve learned Hiragana, but I can’t learn anymore until I turn in my project paperwork. You don’t pronounce the ‘u’ in ます, right?
@livelaugh7 I came back to school to make up my Spanish and English exams that I missed. I get back to school next week.</p>
<p>GUYS I NEED HELP</p>
<p>not drastically though</p>
<p>Do you know if I am allowed to have my inhaler with me during the ACTs?</p>
<p>optimization is bae</p>
<p>@livelaugh7 You need to talk to the proctors and testing center and stuff!! They should let you because that’s a health situation… 
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<p>Guys I AM IN A SITUATION HERE please help:</p>
<p>So, I’m deciding whether to quit Spanish after Spanish 3 (which I’m taking this year), but I’m not sure if I should, since a lot of competitive colleges have people taking a language all four years (or at least have people with four levels) and stuff.</p>
<p>My current plans for junior and senior year:
Junior:<br>
H. English 11<br>
AP Calculus BC<br>
AP Physics 1<br>
APES<br>
US History<br>
Journalism (if I get in) OR Spanish 4 </p>
<p>Senior:
AP Lit
Multivariable Calculus/Linear Algebra
AP Chemistry
AP Physics C
Gov/Econ
Journalism (if I get in junior year) OR Creative Writing/Public Speaking</p>
<p>However, I made a thread about it and lots of people are encouraging me to drop APES for Spanish 4.</p>
<p>I really, really, really want to take APES.</p>
<p>But I also really, really, really want to take Journalism (our school newspaper; if I get in, obviously, but juniors have the best chance of getting in). </p>
<p>In order to take Spanish 4, I’d have to drop one. Which is why I’m wondering if I should bother submitting the application for Journalism at all–basically, should I take it? (a lot of emotional trauma was involved last year when I was rejected due to a horrible interview)</p>
<p>Any advice?</p>
<p>@topaz1116 Can you take spanish outside of school, just for the year?</p>
<p>@livelaugh7 Nope. Our CC only offers a course equivalent to Spanish 3 as its highest Spanish course; and online courses typically cost an exorbitant amount.</p>
<p>@topaz1116 What colleges do you want to go to? maybe you can drop spanish and pick up a different lang outside?</p>
<p>@livelaugh7 Top three are MIT, Stanford, and Harvey Mudd (one of the first two is definitely going to be my EA school); Stanford is the one I’m most worried about since MIT and Harvey Mudd only recommend 2-3 years of a high school language. However, on the Stanford website, they stated that their “most competitive applicants have four years of a foreign language.” </p>
<p>Great.</p>
<p>I mean, it’s a crapshoot to get into any of them, but still.</p>
<p>I haven’t really looked at many other schools besides the UCs and a local university that would probably be a safety for me, but when I do, they might have similar requirements as well.</p>
<p>I want to learn Latin on my own time, but I don’t know how hard it’ll be and my dad wants me to focus on school and won’t buy me the textbook I want. </p>
<p>@topaz1116 Maybe if you could get your hands on a Spanish textbook and just study from that and test out of that level and take the next level senior year? I’m not sure how your school works and its policy on stuff like this but normally you can put it on your resume or whatever that you finished that level of spanish… I think</p>
<p>@livelaugh7 We can’t test out of levels; I think the only acceptable case is if you take an AP test and score a 4 or 5; in that case, you’re placed into the AP class for which you took the test (I know a girl who did that for Calc BC as a freshman, so she took MVC as a junior… She got into Stanford, MIT, and Harvard. Ugh.)</p>
<p>@topaz1116 If I were you I would stick with Journalism and APES, it sounds you have a big interest in pursuing both of them, while you want to take Spanish 4 to make your chances better. Almost all schools only require 2 years, which you have, and top tier ones recommend 4, however its not needed and if you showed that you took other rigorous classes by not taking Spanish that would be fine.</p>
<p>The Stanford website also mentions this flexibility, “There is flexibility, however, in how we view an applicant’s curriculum. For example, an applicant may be competitive with just three years of a foreign language through 11th grade but also with five math courses taken in the last four years.”</p>
<p>If you still decide on taking Spanish, I would recommend dropping APES, as you could probably just self study it </p>
<p>@17Angel that’s probably what I’m going to do. </p>
<p>@17Angel I might end up doing that. I hate Spanish :<</p>
<p>Should I take AP Spanish Language and then AP Spanish Literature or should I take AP Spanish Literature then AP Spanish Language? I can’t decide. ( Both have around 8-10 students and are taught by the same teacher).</p>
<p>@Faultystart I’d take Lang then Lit, so you get a better grasp of the language before having to read legit books.</p>
<p>@topaz1116 I’m in the same situation. I’m currently in Hn French 3 and I HATE it. My teacher is really boring and we don’t learn anything. What’s worse is that he is retiring so we will have a new teacher for AP French, and we will NOT be prepared for the AP test. I’m seriously considering dropping French for either a third science or Latin. I propbably will because I want to pursue a math/science career, but I’m slightly hesitant because I know I won’t be able to apply to Princeton or other elite colleges, and I know my GC will push for AP french.</p>