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I also got a 65% on the Kaplan test and passed NCLEX first time with 75 questions.. that was last December.

Where you live now or where you are planning to live to practice nursing would determine what language would be most helpful. Since Spanish is the most widely spoken second language in America, I'm sure you couldnt go wrong with that. I graduated from nursing school a year ago with no Spanish background, and eight months later moved to El Paso (where speaking Spanish is pretty manditory) and volunteer with an orphange in Juarez. I wish now that I had taken Spanish during my prereqs. However, I find that being around the language daily, I'm really starting to pick it up. If you're really serious about learning the language an educational trip to a Spanish-speaking country would deffinately be helpful. On another note, the community hospital back in Dallas paid bilingual staff and extra $0.50 an hour. The downside is that the bilingual staff was constantly being pulled of their jobs to translate for someone else. All in all, I think that experiencing other cultures and learning different languages only makes you a better, more compassionate, more well rounded person and would deffinately recommend it :) I know that I now have a huge respect for people who moved to this country and had to learn English!