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<p>Level of intensity depends on the language. All intro languages are time-intensive, meaning you will be in class 4-5 times a week generally, some times more with extra “conversation classes” at lunch or another convenient time. And you will probably have assignments due every day in class. While that may not seem like a lot to everyone in high school right now, in college that is not the norm. But if you want to learn a language and learn it well, you have to practice it every day, so that makes a lot of sense. </p>
<p>How difficult the work is depends on the language, your background, and your knack (or lack thereof) for learning languages. I would argue that for a student growing up in America, spanish is probably one of the easiest languages to learn because it uses the same alphabet as English. </p>
<p>If you come to Wellesley and jump right into intro chinese, arabic, hindi/urdu and you’ve never done anything like it before, you will have to spend a lot of time on it. Those languages are especially difficult, but obviously, very very useful presently.</p>