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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t think the foreign language component is that hard. My daughter got. 6/7 on French, and I don’t think her French is great.[/quote]

My DD is wrapping up HL French this year, and isn’t finding it difficult, either.

She’s learned enough to be fairly conversational when we were in Montreal this summer, at least. Navigated the city with ease, chatted with servers.

We’ll see how the exams go, but so far she hasn’t found the prep too challenging. [/quote]

What year of French is this in MCPS? 6 or 7? (It looks like some school offer it through level 7.) That may make a difference as to how easy/hard it is.[/quote]

At our school AP level is French 5 (the 5th year of French). 7 years is a lot of French, do you start in 6th grade? At our school kids that are not into foreign language just do 1 & 2.[/quote]

So people are taking AP French in sophmore year? That seems early. It seems at most schools like it is junior year, which would be the 6th year. But I'm confused because MCPS offers 7 years of French language. If AP is in the 5th or 6th year, what are they teaching after that?[/quote]

Some kids take AP foreign language in middle school and they are done with the foreign language requirement. They make room for other electives if they choose to. I’d guess most of them are native speakers or come from immersion schools. College Board had some statistics, about ten thousand students take AP exams in middle school, it’s mostly Spanish.[/quote]

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