Oh cool xD
Well good luck to you :P

Hey!

I went to Southampton to study languages and it was amazing. I'd recommend the uni to anyone wanting to pursue a languages degree.

I'm in kind of a similar position. I'm doing single honours Chinese and I'm thinking about doing some optional modules in Thai, which sounds very interesting. I don't know enough about Burmese to say much about it, other than that it looks quite different to Japanese, which might be a problem (compared to say, Korean, which looks a lot closer). In terms of it impacting on your Japanese language, does the course at SOAS actually have optional modules that focus on improving your Japanese? I looked into the course I'm (potentially) doing at Leeds and all the language modules (bar Classical Chinese) are core modules. If all the Japanese language modules are core modules on your course, then you wouldn't be losing out much I don't imagine if if you picked up some Burmese.

Still, if you study another language on the side, it will definitely open up some more doors for you after you graduate. My best advice would be to talk to some of the staff when you get there and get some opinions. Also try and look into the language beforehand, maybe some books or some CD's, to give yourself a little introduction and see if it's something that you'd enjoying speaking and listening to.

Good luck! I've finished my IB exams now and it so scary knowing that there is nothing more I can do about them, but I'm taking my A-Level in Russian this June, so I've got plenty to keep working on at the moment. Honestly, I'll be devastated if something went wrong and I didn't get into Notts for Russian, as I'm so excited about uni now.

I realize I've come to this thread kind of late, but has anyone applied to Oxford Brookes for Japanese. I'm deciding between Manchester and Brookes. I'm currently living in Manchester right now, so I guess it would be more convenient, but Brookes seemed good too. Anyone know about the course? Also, is anybody here planning on doing Japanese as part of a joint honours degree?


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Impressive! It's insightful to see your opening post and then the comment above. What materials or path of study did you take in order to learn Italian to such a good level? I'd appreciate any recommendations! :)

Hello!

It's probably too early for me to be thinking about university as I am only in 4th year (Scotland) and haven't even sat my Standard Grade exams yet (:$), but at the moment I am pretty set on doing languages at university, and then going on to teach Modern Foreign Languages in Secondary Schools. I have always loved languages and I was born and lived in Austria until I was seven. Unfortunately, even though I could speak fluent German when I lived in Austria, I have forgotten almost all of it.:( I am however, doing German Standard Grade now and am continuing it on to Higher, and I am also crashing French Higher which I haven't done since second year.

Anyway, I have always thought that i would just do a Joint Honours Degree in French and German at uni, but recently I've been thinking about doing ab-initio Spanish as well.

My question is, would doing three languages make me less fluent in each language rather than if I just did two? Also, would having a degree in three languages make me more employable for teaching MFL's?

Thank you in advance, and sorry it was so long!:$

Yes! I have been trying my utmost to convince my history teacher and classmates that German really is a beautiful language, but sadly to no avail. :( Some people just associate it with Hitler's speeches which is not an accurate representation of what the german language is really like!

That's really relevant, I'm surprised it just never popped into my head... it's that obvious :D I dunno whether my German was any good though ;) Also, I never engaged with the statement about drugs, dya reckon I'll be punished for it?

It sounds to me as though you really don't want to go to UCLAN... if you don't have a good feeling about it, don't do it!

I agree with etwas, if you don't have a good feeling about a place, don't go. You've got to go for the best course, aswell as a place you feel excited about

Herriot-Watt is definitely my first choice, but if I don't get my B's I'll either be at one of the other uni's or doing it by level 3 then level 6 which will still take a while!

It would be nice to see your personal statement, thank you! I haven't even started mine, got my AS exams for the next few weeks :(

I think they do, but most won't act on it. I mean, one of the first things I heard my landlady ask me when I arrived was if there were loads of black people in Paris (how would I know, I don't live there?), but apart from staring a lot, I don't think they really do anything. Being white, I haven't experienced racial discrimination in Russia (although I've put up with quite a lot of harassment in the Middle East), so I probably would not be the best person to talk to, but I wouldn't let my skin colour get in the way of my interests too much, Russia's a fascinating place to study and the language is very interesting. :)

When you don't know them, Russians may not appear particularly friendly, they don't really smile in the streets or anywhere, really, and for people used to British manners, Russians are just plain rude, they'll trample you in the metro during rush hour, they rarely say please or thanks in shops, etc. but that's just the way it is, and Russia' definitely not the only country where people act this way (it's a bit like France on steroids, really). Once you get to know Russian people, they're really quite nice and agreeable, they always want to know more about you, where you're from etc., they're quite curious and thirsty for knowledge.

Hi thank you that was all really useful!!

Would you mind me asking what unis you applied to and what your AS grades were? I just want to get an idea of where I should aim for!

Thanks

Hi I'm sixteen years old and am considering applying for modern and medieval languages in oxford or cambridge (I'd be entering in 2015). I really want to improve my french would anyone have any suggestions of books I could read for this?!! thanks :)

Go ahead, I'm leaning towards Birmingham slightly at the moment. I've got till next tuesday to choose so I need to decide soon. Pitch it to me

Hey,
I went to Southampton and I did a linguistics based French and Spanish degree. Didn't have to do a single lit module!

Hello! :) basically, I got all 5 offers for languages (yipeeeee!), and have decided that my top 3 would be Durham, Warwick and Edinburgh.

However, after visiting all 3 I decided that:

Durham - too small for me, (though perfect for some! :$ ) and too close to home (I'm from Newcastle)

Warwick - didn't like the campus thing, felt too far away from a city, and too far from home.

Edinburgh - Beautiful, easy to reach, and not too expensive for a capital city!

However,

1) Durham is number 9 in Uk for Languages, Warwick is 10, Edinburgh is 28

2) Durham and Warwick are nearly always in the UK top 5-10 generally, whilst Edinburgh is (unfairly i reckon!) more around the top 20-25 mark. However, according to QS world university rankings it's number 20 in the world, which puts it far above Warwick (50) and Durham (95) on the world scale.

So in short - am I making a mistake choosing Edinburgh? Since I want to live and work abroad will the World Uni Rankings mean more than the UK ones anyway?

Grateful for any advice! :$

Hi everybody,

I am considering transferring to ULIP but can't find out that much about it from the internet. Would any current students or alumni be able to tell me anything? Specifically about what the facilities are like, the quality of the teaching, social life etc.

Thanks very much!