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Has anyone won a Boren Scholarship? | ||
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| jhois777 Groupie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4758 days ago 43 posts - 47 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Portuguese | Message 1 of 6 26 May 2011 at 10:01pm | IP Logged |
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I figure this is the right section for this question, but move it if it isn't please.
I recently picked Spanish back up after a year hiatus during my first year of college. This is what brought me to these forums about 3 weeks ago and I must say this is a great site. Anyways I have always wanted to study abroad, but I couldn't seem to find good scholarship opportunities. I then find the Boren Scholarhsip which is basically a scholarship to go study for a year with the main purpose being language accusation. Now after reading about it I realize it will be very hard for me to win a scholarship with Spanish being my target language (I still plan to learn it anyways). I really hope someone who has had experience with this can answer me, but if not I am asking for everyone's opinion. They do have Portuguese and Romanian as preferred target languages which are two I would be interested in due to them being Romance languages. The main thing they have going right now is an African iniative which is for Zulu, Swahili, Yurba, and the one in Mali that I can't remember atm. I was thinking about doing one of these as it would definitely increase my chances of getting in. I don't really know what my real question is here guys I have so much going through my mind right now about this I can't write it all down. Lets just go with a full out discussion on this. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| jhois777 Groupie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4758 days ago 43 posts - 47 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Portuguese | Message 2 of 6 26 May 2011 at 10:04pm | IP Logged |
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Sorry for the wall of text
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| Luai_lashire Diglot Senior Member United States luai-lashire.deviant Joined 5623 days ago 384 posts - 560 votes  Speaks: English*, Esperanto Studies: Japanese, French | Message 3 of 6 26 May 2011 at 11:33pm | IP Logged |
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I guess the first question to ask yourself is why you want the scholarship. If you just want to go abroad and don't
care where, then choosing a language that the scholarship is focused on is fine. But if you don't want to study that language or you want to travel to a specific place, then you shouldn't force yourself to study a language JUST to raise your chances of winning. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Lasciel Groupie United States Joined 5168 days ago 55 posts - 81 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Japanese | Message 4 of 6 27 May 2011 at 12:28am | IP Logged |
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"In most cases, study of Spanish of French is only permissible if the applicant is at an advanced level of competency, and students should focus on achieving further language proficiency through academic coursework in Spanish or French. However, students at the intermediate level of Spanish or French who are studying the sciences, technology, engineering, or mathematics are also eligible. Any award granted for the study of Spanish or French will be made contingent upon verification, through testing, of the student’s language level."
Do you think you could get to an advanced level before the testing? What's your major? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| jhois777 Groupie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4758 days ago 43 posts - 47 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Portuguese | Message 5 of 6 27 May 2011 at 12:43am | IP Logged |
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I am undecided right now. I am having a hard time picking my major. I am going to a CC
right now and I am going for free since I am in the honors program there. I feel like I have the ability to major in anything as my past grades have been excellent in all subjects. I just don't know. As far as which language I want to learn I am not against learning that many. The only ones I know I do not want to do are Mandarin and Arabic. They just don't interest me at all. I don't know if I can be fluent in Spanish by then. I took it for four years in high school and I am just starting it back up in the past month. I picking it up pretty quickly since I have had a lot of exposure to it. The languages I am interested in after Spanish are Portuguese, Romanian, and Japanese. Now all of these are on the list and going to Brazil to learn Portuguese would be my first choice, but I am interested in putting myself in a completely foreign situation which would be going to Africa to learn Swahili. This post has made me ask myself even more questions lol oh well. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5642 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 6 of 6 03 July 2011 at 11:01am | IP Logged |
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There is already another thread about the U.S. Boren Scholarschip in this forum which you can find here:
U.S. Boren Scholarschip Therefore this thread is closed. Fasulye 1 person has voted this message useful |
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