Are you planning on learning a language at Uni? (1 Viewer)

[Undermyskin]

Noops. I'm planning to take about ... 4:

French, German, Italian, Greek or Spanish.

I'll devour each of them gradually, of course, but I'm feeling excited already. I will definitely start French right after HSC!

 

[Yamiyo]

No... doing japanese for the HSC has put me off the idea completely.

 

[Nasonex]

noob question

Can u do languages even if ur studying Commerce/Business?

 

[Timothy.Siu]

not sure about that.
i dont think i'd do languages although i'd love to speak another language, i've just had bad experiences with other languages and i'm not particularly good at learning them.. so i'll just stick with english

 

[jessi90]

nope

 

[marcquelle]

alwyas wondered if i should have done Czech Background Speakers as a subject oh well

 

[-may-cat-]

I'll be learning ancient Greek as part of my course

 

[x jiim]

When I get there, I think I'll do German. What's languages like in uni anyway? Is it like high school languages or is it, I don't know, horrendously complicated?

 

[Eclipse008]

Why wouldn't you learn the language in high school? year 7-10 or w/e

They don't run languages at my school.

 

[kaz1]

Cantonese because the language sounds funny. Mandarin is also funny (I coundn't stop laughing when the olympics were on).

 

[Beckerella]

French. It's one of the subjects I want to teach.

 

[Timothy.Siu]

Cantonese because the language sounds funny. Mandarin is also funny (I coundn't stop laughing when the olympics were on).

lol cantonese is weird, the language that is. I'm not too good at it but i can understand and speak most basic everyday stuff. Its just seems so much less structured and formal as mandarin. well thats wat i think anyway

 

[sirfeathers]

When I went to the USyd and UNSW open days this year, I remember heaps of the lecturers saying that doing a major or minor in a language was becoming more and more essential for global career opportunities. It makes sense I guess...especially with the rise of Asia, and the fact that heaps of professional Europeans seem to know fantastic English already, we'll be left looking kindof stupid being one of the more monolingual countries.

 

[dior1]

do you guys plan on doing it as a major/minor or through a diploma of languages?

 

[russianROULETTE]

noob question

Can u do languages even if ur studying Commerce/Business?

if you do commerce (liberal studies) you do commerce and arts (i.e. you can do a language).

anyway, i do italian so if i were going to do a language that would probably be it.

 

[Hagaren]

Yes, Japanese because I'm in love with the country.

 

[Animals]

I wanna learn Asian.
:uhhuh:

 

[Hagaren]

hahaha.... boxes strikes again.

 

[Animals]

hahaha.... boxes strikes again.

AHAHAHAHAHA. Would that be the most ignorant comment I've ever made?

 

[Timothy.Siu]

I wanna learn Asian.
:uhhuh:

u already are