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| prz_ Tetraglot Senior Member Poland last.fm/user/prz_rul Joined 4857 days ago 890 posts - 1190 votes  Speaks: Polish*, English, Bulgarian, Croatian Studies: Slovenian, Macedonian, Persian, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Dutch, Swedish, German, Italian, Armenian, Kurdish | Message 1 of 48 15 June 2013 at 10:02pm | IP Logged |
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I've seen that here we have quite many die-hard language fans, who, however, haven't studied languages at university. What's the reason that you haven't chosen this path of learning languages?
As for myself and my experience I can say that learning languages at uni have some disadvantages. Firstly, usually somewhere around the second or the third year of studies you start to feel that it becomes more a must rather than a will. Burn-out absolutely certain. And secondly, if you're not a genius type (or someone who's extremely systematic and doesn't lose any minute for non-language stuff), you learn to pass the exams, not to use the language in a way you'd like to (reading the books, watching the movies, listening to the music etc. etc.). Edited by prz_ on 15 June 2013 at 10:03pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4705 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 2 of 48 15 June 2013 at 10:12pm | IP Logged |
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Because by the time I did I'd already got a BSc in chemical engineering and had started
my MSc. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4842 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 3 of 48 15 June 2013 at 10:52pm | IP Logged |
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Long story short: Languages are fun, but music is my true passion.
I could probably survive without Japanese (although it would be hard), but I could definitely not live without Mozart. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Swift Senior Member Ireland Joined 4606 days ago 137 posts - 191 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, Russian | Message 4 of 48 15 June 2013 at 10:54pm | IP Logged |
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I'm going to university next year, and what you said hit the nail right on the head. I
want to learn languages, not just learn how to pass a certain exam, which probably isn't even of a very high level. Plus, my experiences with languages in secondary school don't exactly leave me optimistic about how things will be at a higher level. While I think I could still get some benefit out of learning languages in uni, I think that I can get that much, and more, by learning by myself. Oh, and also, I don't really want to be a translator or a language teacher. So I don't see the point of a university degree in a language/ several languages. Of course, language learning is different for everyone. Some might do better in a university environment, and who's to say there aren't some good degree programs out there that really get you speaking a language! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5764 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin | Message 5 of 48 15 June 2013 at 11:04pm | IP Logged |
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Sadly, I'm not the kind of person to can market their own language skills well, and I'm not commited enough for linguistics.
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6595 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 6 of 48 15 June 2013 at 11:06pm | IP Logged |
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I'm studying languages (and linguistics) at uni but I really don't like it. That's my second uni already because the previous one was too prestigious and really cared about attending classes... while I wanted to learn Finnish and Portuguese and couldn't care less about the English political vocabulary.
But applied linguistics (which in Russia doesn't include language teaching!!!) is probably the best possible field for me. Here it's basically a combination of languages, computers and mathematics, ideal for me :) And I can pick any language I want for my term papers etc. I think I'll only be able to enjoy German fully when I'm done learning it at uni. Also, the only language I thank my uni education for is Latin. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| g-bod Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5980 days ago 1485 posts - 2002 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, German | Message 7 of 48 15 June 2013 at 11:11pm | IP Logged |
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My bachelors was in a hobby subject (music) and I really regret it now. There is a huge
difference between doing something just for fun and studying a subject academically. Furthermore I discovered too late that my music degree was pretty useless for any career apart from teaching music, which is something I didn't want to do. Compared to a lot of university subjects, it's relatively cheap and easy to enter yourself for other exams to prove your competence in languages. It only makes sense to me to take a language degree if you are intent on becoming an academic or teacher of languages. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| mausi15 Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4895 days ago 24 posts - 43 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, French | Message 8 of 48 15 June 2013 at 11:16pm | IP Logged |
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I'm still in secondary school myself, but perhaps it's because some people don't wish to study a language academically. That is to say, having to study works of literature and compose essays on it, and would rather learn it more practically. That's only one reason amongst many, however.
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