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My 8th grader is in Spanish 3 and is bilingual/bicultural in French, without having taken a public school French class. Can she take Spanish 4 in 9th, then AP Spanish in 10th grade, and separately take the AP French exam at some point? But nothing beyond that? Or does she need to take the AP Spanish Lit in 11th grade too.

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You can pay to take an AP exam. My kid did AP World History after World History Honors. You might want to get some tutoring though, because the structure of the AP French exam is quite particular so your daughter would want to know the formula they are seeking in answers.  I know some kids who didn't get a 5 in AP French despite 12 years of French immersion because they weren't taught to the test.

Also, I took French at university and some of the mother tongue students in the class had terrible grammar. The professor told them that they sounded great but their written grammar was terrible. They didn't know when to use aller, allez, allais, allaient, allait, allé, allée, allés or allées for example.

French kids who speak French but haven't taken French classes are like 4 year old English speaking kids - they speak and understand English but can't read or write it properly.[/quote]

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