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To: Lane3 who wrote (104860)	2/24/2009 6:16:57 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) of 542809

You may not understand how school works. AP Spanish, like AP English (which we have in all schools I know about), just means you are studying at a more advanced level- and that you are basically in a college level class. So for our school (for example) AP Spanish is Spanish 5, in high school. You are still learning a lot of new vocabulary and you are learning how to write the language well, just as you do in AP English. "Fluent", sadly, means (usually) that someone can speak the language, it does not mean that they can use it academically- which is of course the problem we have with people who can speak English, but who do not understand it well enough to have "academic" language proficiency. The AP classes are geared toward the AP tests- which are very rigorous. IMO AP classes are some of the best classes offerred at high schools, because they have an external test (and a rigorous one at that) which they are designed to meet. Most native English speakers do not have the ability to take AP English classes.

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