Possible to start a new language?

fothi
Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:06:06 +0000

I’m going into my first year at Georgetown this fall.

I’m in the SFS, and I really didn’t like the language program at my school, so I decided not to take a language my senior year. I never took an AP course in a language or anything. Don’t get me wrong… I love languages are I got As every quarter I was taking one, and I’ve been taking Spanish since elementary school… it just had to do with the program at my school.

I have actually talked to just as many people continuing their language from high school as I have people that are starting new languages.

But if you’re going into the SFS, one thing you might want to think about is that in order to graduate, you have to master a language. So, even though you might not like Latin, if you can get the proficiency out of the way, that’s one thing that you don’t have to worry about for graduation, and you can take as many Spanish courses as you want.

That’s what I’m doing. I’m finishing up Spanish, so to speak, and then starting a new language to fill my requirements first.