Possible to start a new language?

mikey101
Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:14:34 +0000

Depends on what school your in. If your thinking SFS you should be aware that they don’t accept Latin as a language that fulfills their requirement (which is proficiency, you have to pass a department test) since it is not a modern language (same goes for ancient greek). If your hoping to be in the SFS you will need to take a new language regardless (probably intensive for three to four semesters at the least to become “proficient” in spanish, this will indeed take up a significant amount of your SFS electives as well).

If your just shooting for the college then latin will be fine as you only need to either take up through or pass out of the intermediate level of any language (modern or classic). My advice would probably be to try and place out of the requirement with latin then you would be free to do what you wish with spanish. Just my two cents though Good Luck!