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| krog Diglot Senior Member Austria Joined 6055 days ago 146 posts - 152 votes  Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Latin | Message 1 of 3 16 February 2009 at 4:17pm | IP Logged |
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Has anyone here by any chance studied at the Uni Wien?
I ask a) because I'm suffering from 'bureaucratic difficulties' trying to enrol, and my girlfriend now insists that should get all my paperwork certified at the British Consulate to ease the process, something which I'd dearly like to avoid... Does anyone know how by-the-book the admissions office is (document-wise, everything is ready to go, unless someone decides to be arsey about it - my girlfriend tells me that it is the Austrian way to be arsey, and all bases need to be covered in advance.)? Are you doomed to have a lot of hassle or is it just a question of who you talk to and what mood they're in? b) (Hopefully,) I'll be studying Slavistics (Russian and Slovak as 1st and 2nd languages); does anyone have any experience of the department here, or of the language departments in general? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| krog Diglot Senior Member Austria Joined 6055 days ago 146 posts - 152 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Latin | Message 2 of 3 20 February 2009 at 11:11pm | IP Logged |
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OK! New informations! I am now in a position to answer my own first question. They are hella fussy.
It's the sort of culture that involves asking you for documents that you put in a shoebox and then lost several years ago. Not that I literally did that, but I bet some poor guy has, and I feel for him. Also: as far as I can make out, the British Embassy will just send all your stuff to Milton Keynes and charge you a lot of money. Plus you don't need to do it anyway. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Lapislazuli Tetraglot Senior Member Austria Joined 7042 days ago 146 posts - 170 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, ItalianB1 Studies: French, Hungarian, Esperanto, Czech | Message 3 of 3 09 April 2009 at 12:26am | IP Logged |
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I only discovered this thread now, but I hope you were able to get everything done by now. If that is a comfort for you, it also always greatly annoyed me to have to bring all those documents and them being so fussy (and me not finding my documents, when I need them) But then I am sure that you even needed to show them more things, then I had to, as I am from here.
About the language departments: the Slavistic department is one that I don't know. The Romance language department is rather crowded and tiresome because of that (at least so I have heard from friends, who study there). But the Scandinavian studies deparment is really nice and cozy, because it is not very big compared to other departments, people know each others and teachers will will recognize you again. And the Finno-Hungarian-depepartment is even smaller and nicer. I really liked those small language departments. After studying for a while at the Uni Wien one really learns to appreciate not having to sit on the floor. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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