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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Had I known, I would have encouraged him to take Japanese, Latin or Russian, which are the "easy" language classes, since he had to start from scratch. [/quote]

Yes, I think some of the best advice I got from experienced TJ parents when DD was a rising freshman was she should choose her foreign language carefully. My kid did not take a language in MS, so she had to start with Level 1, so that was never a concern. French and Spanish are known as being really hard with a lot of homework. I have heard Chinese is hard because so many native speakers take it. Russian, Japanese, and German are known as being relatively easy with little homework. I have hard Latin is "easy", but has a lot of homework.

The challenge with the "easier" languages is there is only one teacher per language, so each level is typically only offered at one time slot. Which becomes a problem as a junior when your Russian 3 class conflicts with the only section of the pre-req class that you need for your senior research project. I know that junior and senior scheduling is a nightmare for guidance.[/quote]

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