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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It absolutely should matter. Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, and Korean, are substantially more challenging to native English speakers than languages like Spanish, French, etc.

That said, it probably isn’t taken into consideration much, if at all.[/quote]

Most of the kids in Chinese and Japanese at our school speak this at home so for a non-native it's extra challenging.[/quote] of

+1. Mandarin and Japanese were productive courses to take in the late 1990s at my high school that had maybe 1-2 native speakers of each those languages total, none of whom wanted to take a language they already knew. My high school demographics are different now and my child knows not to sign up for those classes, because the classes through AP are 90% native speakers who also could write a decent amount before they started the class. My oldest encountered the same in college for mandarin- half the kids taking it were native speakers without writing skills or they spoke other Chinese languages like Cantonese and already had their characters.[/quote]

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