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| Gosiak Triglot Senior Member Poland Joined 5124 days ago 241 posts - 361 votes  Speaks: Polish*, English, German Studies: Norwegian, Welsh | Message 9 of 48 15 June 2013 at 11:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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It all depends on what you mean by studying language at university. If you mean a degree in philology then you need to know that practical language learning is only a part of your studies (around 20% at my Polish uni). Apart from speaking,phonology,practical grammar and writing classes you need to attend history, literature (split into prose and poetry), culture, linguistics (split into applied, cognitive and generative linguistics), descriptive grammar, literary theory and all the "fun" subjects connected with teachers training or/and translation. I might have forgotten about something. If your TL is a popular one you need to be functional in it from the very beginning of your studies because there is a good chance that all your lectures will be in that language. People that choose philology because they simply want to learn a language are often not happy with their choice .
This is why some people insist on saying "I study English/German/French/others philology", "I study English" would be oversimplified in that case. Im sure that philology studies vary and this is my experience. Edited by Gosiak on 15 June 2013 at 11:43pm 5 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| 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 10 of 48 15 June 2013 at 11:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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True, literature and stuff... Luckily, in Poland the less "popular" language is, the less literature and more language you have (poor Polish students at English philology...). Still, even without that I struggle with my BA dissertation (and doesn't matter that it's closely connected with the language per se)
I don't want to discourage you to study languages. If you have a passion for it and you don't struggle with neither many mental ups and downs nor concentration problems... Then go for it. IMO, the best way is to ask a lecturer if you can be a, so called in Poland, "free student". You attend the classes, but you don't care about your marks. The only problem is that you don't get an official document (ah, this beautiful world of documents!). + actually I don't know how studying lingustics, not the philology, looks like - there is no bachelor in linguistics in the city I live. @Josquin - I also wouldn't be able to live without music, just without a different type (this so called "worse"...). Unfortunately, I don't see how this could help me in my "job life". I don't even have the real chances to be a music journalist since the Doctor House's approach is preferred (=criticizing almost everything what's alive and making a big show from that). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| 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 11 of 48 16 June 2013 at 12:13am | IP Logged | ||
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Maybe I should wake up each Monday thinking "thanks God I'm not a philology student".
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| 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 12 of 48 16 June 2013 at 12:21am | IP Logged | ||
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Makes me think of my trial lesson for Romanian this morning "you're an engineer and you
have foreign languages as a hobby... strange combination!" Although I guess some people really enjoy philology, so in that case, more power to them. I like having a science-(based...) degree...I think I would be fine no matter what I'd chosen though. Edited by tarvos on 16 June 2013 at 12:21am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Hampie Diglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 6657 days ago 625 posts - 1009 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: Latin, German, Mandarin | Message 13 of 48 16 June 2013 at 12:32am | IP Logged | ||
Yes. My bachelor's thesis was going to be about the frequency of archaising cuneiform spelling in Old Babylonian Royal Inscriptions and whether they were true archaic variants or just hypercorrection. It was really boring. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| aokoye Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5539 days ago 235 posts - 453 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Dutch, Norwegian, Japanese | Message 14 of 48 16 June 2013 at 12:45am | IP Logged | ||
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I study languages at Uni on occasion (foreign languages that is, not linguistics). The
main reason I do so is that I know that an in person class will end up making me more motivated than no class at all. I also want feedback from people that are native/expert speakers in the language and, while I know I can get that from Skype, lang-8, etc, it's easier to do so in a class (for me). Additionally I enjoy picking professor's brains about language stuff so that's nice. My Uni has a small but somewhat interesting German department, the first year German classes are pretty good, the second year classes are getting better (the curriculum just changed), but the third and fourth year classes are really really good. I might be taking Swedish in the Fall so I can have a "fun" class. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| 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 15 of 48 16 June 2013 at 1:15am | IP Logged | ||
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I actually love philology and literature, but I hate the thought of doing them formally. It's something so personal that I want to keep most of it to myself, and maybe post a few thoughts somewhere. Edited by Serpent on 16 June 2013 at 1:15am 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| lichtrausch Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5958 days ago 525 posts - 1072 votes Speaks: English*, German, Japanese Studies: Korean, Mandarin | Message 16 of 48 16 June 2013 at 1:58am | IP Logged | ||
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Because I want to work in STEM fields.
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