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Teango
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 Message 17 of 57
01 May 2012 at 6:43am | IP Logged 
I initially graduated with a joint honours degree in philosophy and theology from Durham, where I majored in philosophy of language and early Christian poetry. However, this didn't really help put much money on the table, so I opted for the slightly unorthodox route of switching from arts to sciences a year later, and took on a Master's degree in computer science at Nottingham, specialising in natural language processing and artificial intelligence. This lead on to an MPhil in computational linguistics a few years later at Cambridge, which has further ushered me into interesting projects in languages like Arabic and Aramaic. And now finally, after some really tough competition, exams and paperwork, my dreams have finally come true - I've been offered a paid PhD position in the US in second language acquisition studies! I'll be dividing my time between teaching and researching learning methodologies all day long, and will get paid for sharing my shameless passion for languages, whilst most likely boring everyone else half to death too (lol)! :)

Edited by Teango on 01 May 2012 at 2:53pm

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TixhiiDon
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 Message 18 of 57
01 May 2012 at 7:38am | IP Logged 
Teango wrote:
I initially graduated with a joint honours degree in philosophy and theology from Durham, where I majored in philosophy of language and early Christian poetry. However, this didn't really help put much money on the table, so I opted for the slightly unorthodox route of switching from arts to sciences a year later, and took on a masters degree in computer science at Nottingham, specialising in natural language processing and artificial intelligence. This lead on to an MPhil in computational linguistics a few years later at Cambridge, which has further ushered me into interesting projects in languages like Arabic and Aramaic. And now finally, after some really tough competition, exams and paperwork, my dreams have finally come true - I've been offered a paid PhD position in the US in second language acquisition studies! I'll be dividing my time between teaching and researching learning methodologies all day long, and will get paid for sharing my shameless passion for languages, whilst most likely boring everyone else half to death too (lol)! :)


Get you! It sounds fantastic, truly a dream job. Congratulations.
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mick33
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 Message 19 of 57
01 May 2012 at 9:47am | IP Logged 
I will eventually get a bachelors degree in psychology and then a masters degree also in psychology.

Edited by mick33 on 01 May 2012 at 11:17am

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xaled
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 Message 20 of 57
01 May 2012 at 10:37am | IP Logged 
Telecommunication and computer engineering
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Zireael
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 Message 21 of 57
01 May 2012 at 11:17am | IP Logged 
I'm studying English. My major is Linguistics, my minor is British Lit.

And I chose my major before I discovered my passion for everything language- and linguistics-related, I kid you not!
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Josquin
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 Message 22 of 57
01 May 2012 at 12:17pm | IP Logged 
I've got a Master of Arts degree in musicology and philosophy. I finished my studies last year and am now going on to earn my doctorate in musicology. Languages are more a hobby of mine, not my profession, though I sometimes dream of studying Scandinavian languages and literature. But there's no time for that while I'm researching my dissertation and afterwards I'll be working.
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onurdolar
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 Message 23 of 57
01 May 2012 at 12:56pm | IP Logged 
I have a bachelors degree in International Politics and doing master's degree on the same
field; this helps me save myself from "why on earth would you study foreign languages
spend your time on more fun and usefull stuff" bullying i simply tell them " but i study
international relations" and well since it has international in its name and noone
actually knows what it is about they say "ah ok"
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garyb
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 Message 24 of 57
01 May 2012 at 1:37pm | IP Logged 
Bachelors in Computer Science. Yes, back in the day I was more interested in computer
languages than natural languages. I enjoyed it and it made me employable so it was
definitely a good choice.


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