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| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5558 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 17 of 57 01 May 2012 at 6:43am | IP Logged | ||
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I initially graduated with a joint honours degree in philosophy and theology from Durham, where I majored in philosophy of language and early Christian poetry. However, this didn't really help put much money on the table, so I opted for the slightly unorthodox route of switching from arts to sciences a year later, and took on a Master's degree in computer science at Nottingham, specialising in natural language processing and artificial intelligence. This lead on to an MPhil in computational linguistics a few years later at Cambridge, which has further ushered me into interesting projects in languages like Arabic and Aramaic. And now finally, after some really tough competition, exams and paperwork, my dreams have finally come true - I've been offered a paid PhD position in the US in second language acquisition studies! I'll be dividing my time between teaching and researching learning methodologies all day long, and will get paid for sharing my shameless passion for languages, whilst most likely boring everyone else half to death too (lol)! :) Edited by Teango on 01 May 2012 at 2:53pm 5 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| TixhiiDon Tetraglot Senior Member Japan Joined 5466 days ago 772 posts - 1474 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese, German, Russian Studies: Georgian | Message 18 of 57 01 May 2012 at 7:38am | IP Logged | ||
Get you! It sounds fantastic, truly a dream job. Congratulations. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5926 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 19 of 57 01 May 2012 at 9:47am | IP Logged | ||
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I will eventually get a bachelors degree in psychology and then a masters degree also in psychology. Edited by mick33 on 01 May 2012 at 11:17am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| xaled Tetraglot Newbie Morocco Joined 4717 days ago 9 posts - 31 votes Speaks: Arabic (classical), Arabic (Maghribi)*, French, EnglishC2 Studies: Spanish, Japanese | Message 20 of 57 01 May 2012 at 10:37am | IP Logged | ||
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Telecommunication and computer engineering
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| Zireael Triglot Senior Member Poland Joined 4653 days ago 518 posts - 636 votes Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, Spanish Studies: German, Sign Language, Tok Pisin, Arabic (Yemeni), Old English | Message 21 of 57 01 May 2012 at 11:17am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm studying English. My major is Linguistics, my minor is British Lit.
And I chose my major before I discovered my passion for everything language- and linguistics-related, I kid you not! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4846 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 22 of 57 01 May 2012 at 12:17pm | IP Logged | ||
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I've got a Master of Arts degree in musicology and philosophy. I finished my studies last year and am now going on to earn my doctorate in musicology. Languages are more a hobby of mine, not my profession, though I sometimes dream of studying Scandinavian languages and literature. But there's no time for that while I'm researching my dissertation and afterwards I'll be working.
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| onurdolar Diglot Groupie TurkeyRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4654 days ago 98 posts - 147 votes Speaks: Turkish*, English Studies: Italian, German | Message 23 of 57 01 May 2012 at 12:56pm | IP Logged | ||
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I have a bachelors degree in International Politics and doing master's degree on the same
field; this helps me save myself from "why on earth would you study foreign languages spend your time on more fun and usefull stuff" bullying i simply tell them " but i study international relations" and well since it has international in its name and noone actually knows what it is about they say "ah ok" 5 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| garyb Triglot Senior Member ScotlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5209 days ago 1468 posts - 2413 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, French Studies: Spanish | Message 24 of 57 01 May 2012 at 1:37pm | IP Logged | ||
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Bachelors in Computer Science. Yes, back in the day I was more interested in computer
languages than natural languages. I enjoyed it and it made me employable so it was definitely a good choice. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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