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| ihaveacomputer Triglot Newbie Canada Joined 6835 days ago 21 posts - 52 votes  Speaks: English*, Hindi, Punjabi Studies: Urdu, Italian | Message 49 of 57 05 May 2012 at 5:30am | IP Logged | ||
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I'll be graduating next month from the University of Toronto with an Hons.BA in Religious
Studies, South Asian Studies, and Italian. Most of my energy was directed towards the study of Hinduism and Sikhism. I also obtained a diploma in Punjabi from Punjabi University, Patiala during a year spent in India. Come September, I'll begin reading an M.Phil. in Modern South Asian Studies at Oxford. I'll continue studying Hindi, Urdu, and Punjabi. I will also develop a reading knowledge of Awadhi, Braj, and the Punjabi of the Guru Granth Sahib. I'm undecided on career plans. I'm strongly considering Canada's federal public service. Academia is a possibility, but I doubt I'll continue down that path. I'd love to find work in India, as well, so that's another option. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| cathrynm Senior Member United States junglevision.co Joined 6127 days ago 910 posts - 1232 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Finnish | Message 50 of 57 05 May 2012 at 7:53am | IP Logged | ||
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I majored in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley. This was mostly analog electronics and signal processing, of which in my life I've never actually used professionally. I've been working in the video games business ever since.
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| thephilologist Tetraglot Newbie United States Joined 6036 days ago 26 posts - 29 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German, French Studies: Portuguese | Message 51 of 57 05 May 2012 at 3:54pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm majoring in history and German, with an Asian studies minor.
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| ymapazagain Senior Member Australia myspace.com/amywiles Joined 6961 days ago 504 posts - 538 votes Speaks: English* Studies: SpanishB2 | Message 52 of 57 06 May 2012 at 10:25am | IP Logged | ||
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I graduated with an Associate Degree in Music Studies (Contemporary Voice) in 2009 and I am currently working towards a Bachelor of Arts (Philosophy). Another year and a half to go! After that I'm considering doing a Diploma in Languages (Spanish) as I'll already have exemption from the beginner units plus two intermediate units credited from my BA. That will leave me free to explore the much more interesting advanced and cultural units.
Edited to add: Aside from my music degree, a university education is more about personal development for me than it is about a career. Teaching the piano is my main source of income and I plan to make this my long term career. For professional development I am continuing my study with the performance diplomas offered by the AMEB (Australian Music Examinations Board). Edited by ymapazagain on 06 May 2012 at 10:31am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| jellyfish Triglot Groupie Japan Joined 4787 days ago 50 posts - 70 votes Speaks: English, German*, Japanese Studies: Thai, Persian, Russian | Message 53 of 57 08 May 2012 at 9:47am | IP Logged | ||
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Currently I'm in my third year of a BA Linguistics and Japanese; once I'm back from Japan I'll have one year left of it, and after that I'm hoping to get into a one-year translation master's programme.
Then I want to translate Japanese into German/English freelance while bumming around the world for a year or two, and at some point go back to university to study something related to aid and disaster relief. Plans may, of course, change. Edited by jellyfish on 08 May 2012 at 9:49am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Kisfroccs Bilingual Pentaglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 5411 days ago 388 posts - 549 votes Speaks: French*, German*, EnglishC1, Swiss-German, Hungarian Studies: Italian, Serbo-Croatian | Message 54 of 57 08 May 2012 at 10:28pm | IP Logged | ||
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Currently in a bilingual (French / German) Bachelor of Law, and I'm thinking about getting a special mention in European Law (Internal Market Law and European Private Law). But I would love to be able to choose International law (currently studying Public, but I would love to extend further...).
My Hungarian and Croatian doesn't really fit in all this :). But whatever. Kisfröccs 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Missandei Diglot Newbie Croatia Joined 4584 days ago 4 posts - 4 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English | Message 55 of 57 12 May 2012 at 12:32am | IP Logged | ||
oh, my god! You speak Croatian? That's amazing. I know that everyone here is mostly dedicated to studying languages and is not a weird thing to learn any language, but I'm still surprised someone was interested enough to actually learn Croatian. Yaaay! I'm just happy, that's all. On topic- Oh, and I haven't yet finished my education. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6599 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 56 of 57 12 May 2012 at 10:15am | IP Logged | ||
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There are a bunch of us here;) And I know quite a few Russians who love your football NT and learn the language because of this ;) That's my main reason too :D
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