My D22 is skipping language this year and may pick it back up next year. She completed Spanish 3 last year (sophomore year) and asked to take Spanish IV this year, but it didn’t work with her schedule so she just wasn’t able to do it. I don’t think it will hurt her any in her ability with Spanish to skip this year and I doubt it would hurt her for the US colleges she would be likely to apply to. She’s been lucky to always have Spanish as a special through elementary school and when she got to middle school (6-12 school) she took high school Spanish 1 and 2. They tried to put her in Spanish 3 honors in 8th grade, but she didn’t really want to do it with all the high school juniors and seniors so she held off. Ended up she didn’t take it until last year and the time off didn’t hurt her. Still got an A. She is not fluent in Spanish, but she can manage to understand if the speaker doesn’t talk too fast and can usually make herself understood. Languages are pretty easy for her.