Spanish 2 and it was so hard(B first semester, C+ second semester 
), especially since it wasn’t an honors class. I heard from a friend that 2nd year of high school Spanish is always the hardest and Spanish 3 is more about speaking skills and is easier. I got my schedule for next year and my Spanish 3 teacher is the same Spanish teacher from my Spanish 2 class
That will depend on your school. For my school, Spanish 4 was the hardest; we learned too many tenses in too short a time. If your friend was speaking specifically about your school, I’d believe them!
At my school, Spanish 3 is the hardest it gets. Spanish 4 and up is just a continuation of using skills learned in Spanish 1-3. You learn the majority of tricky tenses in Spanish 3.
For me, it was Spanish 2 since we were exposed to new tenses and grammar rules, whereas Spanish # and above were just refining these skills. It all depends on your teacher and school, though.
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It depends on the school, I think. For me, Spanish 3 was the hardest.
Spanish 4 is the hardest at my school.
I placed out of Spanish 1 (I took Spanish 1A/1B in middle school and then took a placement test in high school), but Spanish 2 and Spanish 5 were the two hardest levels for me. Spanish 2 is when I learned a lot of the difficult concepts, but after that Spanish 3 wasn’t too bad – although I wasn’t awake nearly enough to tell you much about it – and Spanish 4 was just putting to use most of what we learned. There was lots of translating and reading in it, but nothing too difficult. Spanish 5 (around AP Spanish level, but my school didn’t offer AP classes) had a lot of reading, a lot of writing (1 essay per week), a good amount of speaking, and was overall one of the hardest classes I took in high school.
Spanish 2 was hard given the fact that I didn’t know the language that well and it had some tough concepts to get through, but objectively speaking Spanish 5 was by far the hardest.
No disrespect to your teachers, but IMO translating is an ineffective way to teach a modern foreign language.
@skieurope – It wasn’t really intended to be only translating. In the beginning we had to do two or three major translations and then after that it was mostly just expected that we would either be able to read in Spanish or just cheat and print out English versions of the text.
I have no attachments to my school though. It’s an awful institution and I’ve considered writing some kind of open letter about how terribly run it is (it’s a well-known private school on Long Island). I have a long list of complaints about it and sadly the outdated curricula aren’t even in the top three problems with the school. However my Argentinian Spanish teacher (had her for levels 2 and 5) did the best job teaching of any language teacher I’ve ever had and I learned a ton from her.
@micmatt513 Glad it worked out for you.
It depends… In my Spanish II we learned mainly grammar as opposed to vocab, such as preterite, imperfect, past participle, present progressive, indirect object pronouns, direct object pronouns, GAR CAR ZAR verbs, etc. overall, it wasn’t too bad though, just took some practice.
I think it depends on the school. I just finished Spanish III, & I did TERRIBLE the second semester, as I moved in the middle of the year! My new high school is mostly Spanish-speakers, so most of the class was in Spanish. Luckily, it was my last year of Spanish.
Definitely depends on school and the teacher.
I just finished Spanish I. It was a breeze. Especially since we were given THE EXAM AND THE ANSWERS as a study guide for the exam as well as use front and back of a notecard. So I just took an hour to transcribe all the answers, and that was my extent of the studying the whole year. Mostly skipped, or slept, or was on Pinterest. I heard they watched Mean Girls 4 times. The English version. Sounds like someone needs to be fired there.
Spanish II has a different teacher. 2 students passed out of 30 last year. I think that says everything.
My spanish teacher last year for Spanish I also taught Spanish II classes and has also taught III in previous years. He always told us that Spanish II is the hardest year, and even though Spanish III is no easier, by Spanish III the students are accustomed to the strategies they need so it seems easier.
TL;DR: No, but it can feel like the hardest