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| wber Groupie United States Joined 4299 days ago 45 posts - 77 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Vietnamese, French | Message 25 of 48 18 June 2013 at 3:27am | IP Logged |
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My main reason:
1. High School bored me stiff. 2. Focusing on languages at the University level usually means learning about how the language works and all that grammar stuff instead of speaking it ( Sorry I'm no linguist) and I'm really not into that. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| nonneb Pentaglot Groupie SpainRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4749 days ago 80 posts - 173 votes Speaks: English*, Ancient Greek, Latin, German, Spanish Studies: Mandarin, Hungarian, French | Message 26 of 48 18 June 2013 at 6:33pm | IP Logged |
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I enjoyed taking Greek, Latin, and Hebrew at university. I tried to take one class in
Spanish, and I ended up dropping it. At least at my school, the way languages were taught just isn't very conducive to using and appreciating a living language. Too much literature at too low a level for me. Funny enough, I spent a semester abroad in Mexico, and it was great for my Spanish, but I dropped the Spanish class I was taking there, too. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Henkkles Triglot Senior Member Finland Joined 4251 days ago 544 posts - 1141 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, Swedish Studies: Russian | Message 27 of 48 18 June 2013 at 7:25pm | IP Logged |
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I'm not in university yet.
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| darkwhispersdal Senior Member Wales Joined 6038 days ago 294 posts - 363 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Ancient Greek, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Mandarin, Japanese, Latin | Message 28 of 48 18 June 2013 at 8:15pm | IP Logged |
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Well my first degree is a BSc in Biochemistry which I picked because I had a good chance of finding a job at the end of it which I did three months afterwards and in the same area as my dissertation :-)
Once I did that I started a degree as a hobby in the area I wanted to study which was Classical Studies and Philosophy with the Open University. I've taken Classical Greek, Classical Latin and Beginner's Chinese on this degree. In the case with the OU you have to teach yourself as close to the schedule the course team have provided. Not all tutors are equally good I was lucky with mine but a fellow student who studied Spanish and English had a terrible tutor for two years in the Spanish pathway and had to resit the final module due to poor guidance on the EMA (End of Module Assessment). To be honest I found the pace relentless at times and highly stressful so there are some great advantages to studying in your own time without deadlines. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5922 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 29 of 48 18 June 2013 at 10:39pm | IP Logged |
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I'm already part way through a bachelors degree in psychology, though I might be interested in studying languages was well.
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| Victor Berrjod Diglot Groupie Norway no.vvb.no/ Joined 5107 days ago 62 posts - 110 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: Japanese, Korean, Ancient Greek, Biblical Hebrew, Mandarin, Cantonese | Message 30 of 48 21 June 2013 at 9:48am | IP Logged |
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I studied Japanese in university, but I learned more efficiently on my own, so I didn't study other languages there. I did have two exams in Mandarin after studying by myself, and that went well.
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| vrvitor Diglot Newbie Brazil Joined 4276 days ago 7 posts - 10 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishC2 | Message 31 of 48 23 June 2013 at 5:53pm | IP Logged |
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Before I got to university, I used to love mathematics, physics, computer programming and
some other disciplines very much. Now I'm studying Computer Engineering, and I no longer feel the same pleasure when I work with these things. Of course, I still like it (otherwise, I'd have already dropped college a long time ago). I simply don't have as much fun studying math, for example, as I used to. My point is: Everything we decide to study in university stops being such a fun experience and becomes more of an obligation. Up to now, I've been taking up languages as a hobby, and I really enjoy the experience. I suppose that if I studied languages in university, I'd loose this feeling towards languages. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6907 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 32 of 48 23 June 2013 at 10:23pm | IP Logged |
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Bear in mind that some languages aren't available at the university - definitely not in my area, not at the major ones either (not that I'd plan to move to another town in order to study a language for which I have just as good resources in my own bookshelf). Some universities have net-based courses (usually part-time). I had to quit the same course twice due to clashing work schedules.
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