German STUDIES

uumm.. what the hell is wrong with "studies"?? It's just the name girl!
It's just another way of saying "single honours German"

If it's German you want to do, and only German, then do it!

I know there's a belief that "studies" on the end devalues a degree but I think that's just a misconception. Lots of unis do this with single degree languages, it doesn't make any difference in most courses (as you said German studies and Russian studies combined equals German and Russian).
If you really want to do just German then go for it. A combined degree with Russian would probably work out better when you graduate but if you're not happy with it and finding it too difficult then drop Russian.
It is totally up to you, do whatever makes you happy.
EDIT: Plus no-one is going to mind if you just 'forget' to put the "studies" part of the title on your CV...

I always knew doing Russian would be better for everything but I'm awful at it . Everyone else knows what theyre doing and I'm just losing the will to live!!!

Don't worry I'm sure loads of people feel like this initially, Lord knows I will! Stick with it for a while longer and try to keep an open mind, and see how you feel after a week or two. Be sure it's what you want though.
I know it's not really the same thing, but I was sure that I wasn't going to cope with my AS Levels in the lower sixth, so I dropped Economics before the exam. I later discovered that the one course at the one uni that I would have jumped at doing (and still would) wasn't entirely suitable for someone without an A2/AS in Maths, Business or Economice
Maybe I would have failed it miserably, I'll never know now, but I'm happy with where my life's going now. Anyway just be sure it's what you really want to do

I can't stick with it ...I've been saying stick with it to myself from the first lesson and it's got to the stage where am just in a complete pathetic mess by the end of each lesson...I mean I've done three weeks and I just can't learn any of it. I failed our first test miserably

For me to even come to keeping up averagely with the class I know I need to spend about 3-4 hours a day doing Russian and I can't physically do it ! I found German hard enough last year so god knows what told me I could manage two languages!

Single Honours is still scary n all though.

If you really can't deal with it then drop Russian, you shouldn't do it if it's not what you want to do. If you're not happy then you can't continue with it.
Don't worry, if you drop Russian then you will be able to focus more on German which will help, but you should decide soon as you'll need to catch up on the German modules you'll need to replace Russian with.
EDIT: Don't worry so much, you'll be fine

Haha is it that obvious how much I'm worrying ?

Doesn't take much for me to go into ridiculous panic mode...

And you're right, I'm not happy so I can't keep doing it, it makes me ill

Oooh well cheers

No problem! Just go for whatever you want. I did, and I would make the same choices again.
And thanks for the rep

I know, I wish I'd applied originally for something languagey/history-ish hehe

I have my plan anyway, if I they won't let me onto German&History I'm gonna go for German&History of Art and then settle for single honours hehe

No prob about the rep hehe, you wuz bein nice 2 meee

Have you thought about Spanish? SO much easier than anyother language.
And I'm always nice to nice people

I once tried to learn Spanish when I was about 13.
If I have any electives which I probably will have if I end up single honours I would like to do Spanish or some other language which uses the same bloody alphabet lol
It'd be far too late for me to join a beginner's Spanish set now, considering how I struggled with Russian - I was thinking about that but then I just realised I'd never catch up the pace we had to work at!

Seriously tho Spanish is so easy to start! It'll seem so much easier in comparison to Russian, and to German even lol!

Hmmm after getting completely ripped to pieces by admissions and being told I can only do single honours, I've been to the head of German & told her how I cannot be doing w/Russian & I don't really want to do single honours...
And as she knew that History / English were pretty much full she suggested other languages and so me mentioning Latin meant she's gonna see if she can get me onto German & Italian, but obviously isn't promising anything.
It's only week 3 so she didn't understand why they weren't really helping me...
I can deal w/another language I think, especially as I know Latin and my boyfriend is doing Beginner's Italian so he can help meee...
German&Italian - the axis of evil :fuhrer: hehe

just read this thread... yayy u should italian lol i'm sure it's soo much easier than russian. so was the reason you wanted to drop russian mainly because it was russian rather than because it was another language? just wondering what it's gona be like doing 2. (and also i agree with you about studies! ...although if you did just do german studies your degree is still from a really good uni and you would still be fluent in german so it may not matter as much.)