Did you go to a University? Which one? How many years of foriegn language did you take in High School?

Question

I am a junior in High School and I want to determine weather I need a 3rd year of Spanish inorder to go to a University. I'd like to know what university you went to. Also I want to know how many years of a foriegn language did you take in high school? If you transfered from a community college to a university did you have to take a language in college?

Answer 1

I went to university many years ago, but I'd recommend that you take that 3rd year of Spanish no matter what you do. Spanish is a very handy language to know and you can pursue it in greater depth at university if you have a good working knowledge of it to begin with.

I studied the following languages in high school: Latin - 2 yrs, German - 3 yrs, French -1 yr.

Answer 2

I took two years of Spanish in high school. The first year I had a teacher who was not qualified to teach Spanish. He was put in as a substitute. His pronunciation was terrible. I learned very little, but I got good grades. The next year I took Spanish II from a teacher in another school that was way ahead of where I was and I dropped out of it so as not to flunk it.
Then I picked up some Spanish at the hospital where I worked from coworkers, so I could communicate with the Spanish patients enough to get by. I bought Spanish cassette tape courses too.
I took two years of conversational Spanish in college and did well, in comparison to the students who had no previous background in Spanish.
I then went to a Latin American country to do some mission work, and had to learn the Caribbean dialect.
I'm really glad to be able to communicate with Spanish speaking people. Our whole Southwest and Florida were first settled by the Spanish and it is a valid second language in the USA.
I did transfer from a community college to a university. There are only a certain amount of credits that can be transferred, but a language is one of them. You just have to choose the courses you take at the community college so that they add up to the limit. Usually the basics.. English, Math, Communications 101, and then the courses you take at the university are the more specialized ones for your major.

I think if you feel you are really proficient in the language, enough to understand most conversations, and reading comprehension, you can take something else in high school, and then maybe take a year in college. But that is up to you.

PS. The idea of taking Latin, if it is offered at your school,, is a good one. I took one year and find it very helpful in so many things.. medical language, legal terms, any of the languages the come from the Latin root.

Answer 3

I'm going to Davis but i'm a transfer student. You should take 3 years of spanish not 2 even though only 2 is required. But, take it just in case some universities might want 3. And if you have 2 years of high school spanish or other lanugages with a C or better than at the community college you do not have to take foreign language again.

But, if your major is a B.A you might need to take foreign language at the U.C.

Answer 4

I am starting a University in 1 day and I took 2 years of foreign language, German to be exact. Auf Wiedersehn

Answer 5

I took a foreign language from 8th grade up through 12th grade. In 12th grade I took the CLEP test which gave me college credit, and I went to a community college (had good grades in HS just wasn't very motivated to apply to a "good school") and then to a state school, and never had to take foreign language in college because the CLEP covered it.

I'd say take as much as you can in high school, get it out of the way (assuming you have no career plans for a language), take a test to get college credit for it, and save yourself the trouble of having to do it in college.

Answer 6

I went to UW - Eau Claire and high school languages are transferable when taking a college language

Answer 7

I went to Bryn Mawr. I had two years of German and three years of Latin. Most of the colleges to which I applied wanted three years of one language or two years of two - but I did tend to apply to liberal arts schools pretty much exclusively.

Answer 8

i took one year of french as a kid and then i took a year of spanish as a freshman and then 2 years of french in high school. i took one year of french at Lake Erie Colleg and then on year of French at Ohio University.