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| Grosse Affe Newbie United States Joined 6838 days ago 32 posts - 47 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 25 of 169 28 September 2009 at 4:17am | IP Logged | |||||
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A friend of mine from high school went to college and majored in French and Spanish. Her
parents were professors of one or both when we were in high school. The point was that she already knew those languages, so really she just went to college to party. Anywayyyyy, afterwards while working at a car rental chain (what a waste of a college degree), she admitted that she wished she had minored in language but majored in International Business so that she could actually use some of those languages skills. Just my 2cent story. Take what you will from it. 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| MegatronFilm Triglot Senior Member United States peligrosa.tumblr.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5940 days ago 130 posts - 275 votes  Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, French Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 26 of 169 28 September 2009 at 4:41am | IP Logged | |||||
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I'm studying documentary production. I'm definitely going to need to know languages in my field if I want to work
internationally. I'm taking a french class but my college only offers basic classes. I always study Spanish and french outside of class. It bothers me that my school doesn't have many opportunities for students to learn other languages. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Glendonian Bilingual Diglot Newbie Canada Joined 5719 days ago 26 posts - 37 votes Speaks: French*, English* Studies: German, Italian | Message 27 of 169 28 September 2009 at 4:42am | IP Logged | |||||
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History, especially European, especially Early Modern.
I did two years of German classes too. It was helpful. Third year didn't really fit my schedule, and I didn't see the need for the class. I'd like to do the teaching abroad thing too. So overwhelming. 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 28 of 169 28 September 2009 at 7:32am | IP Logged | |||||
Well, I did my foundation stuff in the US (I'm an American) and now I'm doing Ph.D. work in Germany, so I guess I fit your criteria. I don't have a general info site for you though, I got all my info from the Uni's website (I knew where I was headed, haha - it helps when you are looking based on what has a good reputation in your field). As for your second question, I know in the US you often don't have to have a related undergrad degree for many grad programs (though you may have to have the GRE), and I know that it's very different in Germany, I'm told no one would be in a grad program without a corresponding undergrad degree. So I guess it matters what country you are in, as to whether one can do that or not. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| tricoteuse Pentaglot Senior Member Norway littlang.blogspot.co Joined 6680 days ago 745 posts - 845 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Norwegian, EnglishC1, Russian, French Studies: Ukrainian, Bulgarian | Message 29 of 169 28 September 2009 at 9:12am | IP Logged | |||||
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I constantly hear people talking about having this or that degress but working with something compleeeetely different, so I'm feeling more and more that it doesn't really matter what you choose.
I agree with whomever said that people don't believe you know a language if you don't have a degree. Over here you can't skip any classes just because you already know the language either , even if you're a native... I don't have anything finished yet (and I'm not sure our programs work the same way yours do), but I guess one could say that I'm 65% done with one bachelor (in Sweden) and I started another one this fall (in Norway), and I'm kind of working on both at the same time. The first one is a major in French with a minor in history (perhaps) , the second one a major in Russian and minor in Russian culture studies. Since I haven't spent any money on my education yet, I don't really care what I do with it. If everything fails I can always become a teacher of French and Russian, provided I take another pedagogic year to get the right to teach. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6153 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian | Message 30 of 169 28 September 2009 at 10:58am | IP Logged | |||||
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I majored in computer science back in the '90's, with further specialization in artificial intelligence and computer vision systems. We did a LOT of computational linguistics, and human studies on language acquisition. I often wonder if this has skewed my approach to language learning. Edited by DaraghM on 28 September 2009 at 10:58am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| irrationale Tetraglot Senior Member China Joined 6052 days ago 669 posts - 1023 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Tagalog Studies: Ancient Greek, Japanese | Message 31 of 169 28 September 2009 at 11:08am | IP Logged | |||||
Sir, I salute you. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| SamD Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6661 days ago 823 posts - 987 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Portuguese, Norwegian | Message 32 of 169 28 September 2009 at 3:46pm | IP Logged | |||||
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My BA is in French, and my MA is in English, mostly linguistics.
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