A few days ago
Anonymous

Is it true that if you take four years of a language in high school you dont have to repeat it in college?

Is it true that if you take four years of a language in high school you dont have to repeat it in college?

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A few days ago
cindy1323

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Yes.
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A few days ago
iSpeakTheTruth
You usually have to take some sort of placement exam to see where you would stand to bypass the lower levels of a foreign language requirement. If you’re a native speaker or believe you’re just that good to waive the entire sequence then you can opt to test yourself out entirely as well. In either case, you cannot BS your way out as any skills that are lacking will be immediately detected. Colleges implement placement methods because high school teaching is very inconsistent.
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A few days ago
DJ76
At the university I teach in, students can “ghost” the Beginning class…for example, if they took a lot of Spanish courses in high school, they would enroll in a Spanish II course. If they can pass the Spanish II class, they get credit for Spanish I AND Spanish II, which would equal 10 hours of foreign language.

To the best of my knowledge, they don’t take a test; I guess the deciding factor is that if they are sitting in that Spanish II class and don’t have a clue what’s going on, they will have to drop the course or fail it, so the idea of getting credit for Spanish I without having to take it is moot if they can’t do the work.

Hope that makes sense!

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A few days ago
Expat
No, generally not.

It will depend on a couple of factors:

You need to test out of the language courses, but you must not be bilingual due to heritage. Students from bilingual homes are not exempt from foreign language study; they study another language.

So you may get out of it if you test well enough (or at least get out of the lower level courses), but there is no guarantee.

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A few days ago
Peaches
Usually you have to take a placement test to test your knowledge of the language, and then you won’t have to take it in college. It all depends on where you go.
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A few days ago
sellatieeat
no.

you would have to taket he Ap test to show that you are up to a certain level. then you wn’t have to repeat the class again.

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