Nine Volt wrote:ClaviSound wrote:Nine Volt wrote:College scheduling can sometimes be a bitch
Don't worry, I know what you're feeling, and I'm pretty sure anyone else who attends college can attest to the grief-inducing maelstrom that is registering for classes.
Honestly, this is something you need to speak with a college advisor about. I'm sure there's some way of contacting them, even if it's by email. A lot of your choices hinge on uncertainty of certain variables, and clearing those up would make the choice a lot easier.
That being said, if you want to learn German, then what's stopping you? I'm sure you can find plenty of resources online to help you, whether it's legitimate online classes, asking for help from bilingual English/German speakers, or just compiling vocabulary and conjugation lists. Unless you specifically want a traditional classroom setting, you always have the option of just doing it yourself, especially if you're passionate about learning it.
I think you may have misread or I miscommunicated; I'm still in high school.
I suppose nothing's really
stopping me from learning German, but what I more want is ensuring I'm getting things like pronunciation down, and I learn those better from traditional classroom settings. Plus I don't know any German/English speakers who'd be willing to personally teach me anything. Foreign languages come easy to me though, so I'm just thinking that if I get the basics in a classroom setting I can do most of the rest on my own.
Oh, whoops. I understood you were still in high school, I just thought you were looking forward to college.
Still, a school advisor's going to give you more information than anything else.
Honestly, I don't think taking four consecutive foreign language classes is going to look any worse than taking two different foreign language courses. Unless there's an AP course available that you could consider to get college credit, your status on foreign language classes really doesn't matter. Much more important to colleges are extracurricular activities, Advanced Placement scores, and college prep work, with grades and what classes you've taken to graduate much less critical to being accepted. Of course, also depending on where you live, it might be cool to be able to put "bilingual" on an application, but I myself took four years of Spanish in high school, and I can't say I'm even passively fluent.
Unless there's a clear advantage beyond just taking four years for the sake of consistency, there's nothing to worry about.