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| Taengoo Bilingual Triglot Newbie CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4870 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 161 of 169 28 July 2011 at 8:21pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I'm currently in my second year of university at McGill University in Montréal, Canada
and I'm doing a Joint Major BSc. in Physiology and Mathematics. ;o 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| VityaCo Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 7083 days ago 79 posts - 86 votes  1 sounds Speaks: Russian*, Ukrainian*, English Studies: Spanish, Japanese, French | Message 162 of 169 17 September 2011 at 7:12am | IP Logged | |||||
No, It is a very broad, rich major with an infinite opportunities. Look at the ProfArguelles(ProfASAr on Youtube) interesting career, for example. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| decamillisjacob Newbie Canada Joined 4734 days ago 38 posts - 63 votes | Message 163 of 169 28 June 2012 at 6:11am | IP Logged | |||||
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I double majored in Linguistics and English Literature. I now work as a technical communicator (often called a technical writer or tech writer). I had the advantage of both studying language scientifically and creatively enough to give me an edge when it came to producing documentation on behalf of linguistically-challenged geeks---engineers, software developers, scientists, chiropractors even.
If you have a second (or even third) language, you can combine that with technical writing and translate technical documents. You also can travel abroad with your languages and still write/edit in English for various technical and scientific organizations. A fantastic and very well-paid career! Edited by decamillisjacob on 28 June 2012 at 6:05pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| datsunking1 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5587 days ago 1014 posts - 1533 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Russian, Dutch, French | Message 164 of 169 28 June 2012 at 10:26pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Currently at Penn State for Aerospace Engineering with a Spanish minor :D
P.S. Language education at the college level is EXTREMELY disappointing. I learn more on the street than I do in the classroom. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Jappy58 Bilingual Super Polyglot Senior Member United States Joined 4640 days ago 200 posts - 413 votes Speaks: Spanish*, Guarani*, Arabic (Levantine), Arabic (Egyptian), Arabic (Maghribi), Arabic (Written), French, English, Persian, Quechua, Portuguese Studies: Modern Hebrew | Message 165 of 169 06 July 2012 at 10:00pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I majored in Environmental Science and Economics.
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| sacha Triglot Newbie United States Joined 4529 days ago 22 posts - 60 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Quechua | Message 166 of 169 07 July 2012 at 2:42am | IP Logged | |||||
Your linguistics degree is ideal for that (depending on what you focused on, of course). Having a linguistics degree pretty much guarantees the best jobs teaching English abroad. You can, of course, teach English abroad without any more qualification than being a native English speaker, but those jobs are at the low end of the pay scale. With a linguistics degree, you should be able to find a job at the most elite language institutes. And if you do searches on the internet, jobs teaching English abroad abound. Edited by sacha on 07 July 2012 at 2:44am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5132 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 167 of 169 07 July 2012 at 3:13am | IP Logged | |||||
Most of the good ESL jobs these days also require a CELTA certificate. An undergraduate degree is important, but it probably wouldn't matter if it were in linguistics or not. The degree requirement is there so the government can justify offering a valid working visa. What most ESL/EFL schools want to see is that you've studied current teaching techniques unique to ESL - something that CELTA provides (it's also the most recognized certificate program out there.) R. == 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
 newyorkeric Diglot Moderator Singapore Joined 6381 days ago 1598 posts - 2174 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Mandarin, Malay Personal Language Map | Message 168 of 169 07 July 2012 at 4:43am | IP Logged | |||||
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Any idea what a college-educated person with a CELTA cert. would earn throughout in Asia?
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