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| sebngwa3 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6166 days ago 200 posts - 217 votes  Speaks: Korean*, English | Message 9 of 169 27 September 2009 at 7:36pm | IP Logged | |||||
What job did you get with the degree in linguistics? I was thinking if this gets you no job, might as well become a skilled worker like like welder, plumber, etc, and then study linguistics in your free time. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| dragonfly Triglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 6481 days ago 204 posts - 233 votes Speaks: Russian*, EnglishC2, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, Mandarin | Message 10 of 169 27 September 2009 at 8:01pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I majored in physics and phylology (English). Though I was rather good at both subjects, even while at University I decided to pursue the language path as my passion for physics subsided though for languages not. So since graduating I worked as an English teacher and a bit as a translator. I must say being a teacher is very convenient for a woman as you don't have to work from morning till night and you can plan your time and you have time for your family and children.
As for the standards of teaching languages it is rather high at big Univerities here, so I can't complain. Anyway, if you don't work hard on your own you won't have any progress no matter how good your teachers are. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Belardur Octoglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5613 days ago 148 posts - 195 votes Speaks: English*, GermanC2, Spanish, Dutch, Latin, Ancient Greek, French, Lowland Scots Studies: Biblical Hebrew, Italian, Arabic (Written), Mandarin, Korean | Message 11 of 169 27 September 2009 at 8:13pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I majored in Christian Protestant Theology and Philosophy (double) and am doing Ph.D. work now. I had to take some ancient language classes, but there's a reason I'm going back to self-study them - it didn't really teach me all that much. Had I done it in the states, German and French passive ability would have been required for the Ph.D. work, but I'd have studied them actively anyway, just as now.
I'm aiming to teach at a Uni anyway, so the languages are also a plus in that if I get the right certifications, I can teach outside of my field when language instruction is needed. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5569 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 12 of 169 27 September 2009 at 8:28pm | IP Logged | |||||
Well, I only graduated last year, and haven't found a language-related job yet. In this economy, I'm just thankful I have any job at all. I'm working as an assistant manager at a retail store. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Loopy Newbie United States Joined 5713 days ago 37 posts - 39 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, French | Message 13 of 169 27 September 2009 at 8:31pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Dual Degree in Finance and Economics.
Minor in German. Oh yeah... 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| sebngwa3 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6166 days ago 200 posts - 217 votes Speaks: Korean*, English | Message 14 of 169 27 September 2009 at 9:05pm | IP Logged | |||||
May I ask how much do you earn? Is that one of those jobs where they only require a college degree, regardless of which major? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Marc Frisch Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6667 days ago 1001 posts - 1169 votes Speaks: German*, French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Persian, Tamil | Message 15 of 169 27 September 2009 at 9:08pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I majored in pure mathematics with a minor in computer science, and then obtained my Ph.D. in geometry.
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 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6705 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 16 of 169 27 September 2009 at 9:11pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I majored in French (<--major) and Literature (<--minor),- which is somewhat paradoxical given that I have almost dropped reading literature. Besides I 'unofficially' followed courses in Italian, Romanian, Old Norse, a few small courses in minor Romance languages and a preparatory course in 'middle level' Latin.
Generally I think my study years were very productive, but mostly because I used the institutes as places with useful ressources (including native and nearnative teachers) rather than places where anybody were supposed to teach me anything. In fact I only was a normal passive student in the 'conversation' classes, and precisely there I failed miserably ... at least until the moment where I decide to boycott all classes and just to follow my own head, - then my notes catapulted upwards. In high school (Gymnasium, lycée) I completely lost my faith in the 'natural method'. At the university I completely lost my faith in being taught in general - but not in having native speakers around, getting feedback and having a splendid library at my disposal. Later I took most of a degree in Economics (I never finished it), but that's less relevant in this respect, except to show that you can do more than one single thing in this world if you have to. Edited by Iversen on 27 September 2009 at 9:19pm 4 persons have voted this message useful |
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