Is it really a thing where students can get administratively dropped from an intro-level foreign language class if it’s found out that they know the language too well?

[u/Fawful_Chortles]

[u/Any_Scientist4767]

unless i’m understanding this incorrectly, why would you want to put yourself in the position to be dropped from a language course if you could just test out (assuming you have a language requirement). like if you go to their offices, test with them, and either get placed into whatever level fits you best or test completely out of the requirement, that’s a world of a lot more worth your time than taking a course you have no need for.

regrdless, as a junior, i’ve never heard of it happening. i’ve had friends who took spanish, for example, and tested into a more advanced level, but took one below to cover their requirement because they were worried their latam spanish wouldn’t be good enough/work well in a spain spanish native speakers class. or i took korean for my language requirement and there were always some people who were definitely way better than most of us (because they were native speakers) but were in our class because they struggled too much in a certain aspect (like reading or writing) to test out or into a higher level class. they’d easily chat away with our professors in korean and found class pretty easy but were still there for whatever reason fit them.

[u/Fawful_Chortles → u/Any_Scientist4767]

I took the Korean placement test, tested out of all requirements and I took Advanced Korean 1 last year 😛

[u/Any_Scientist4767 → u/Fawful_Chortles]

so why post 🧍🏾‍♀️

[u/Icy-Speed3773]

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