School/College

Philo wrote:

I'm studying Irish language and Celtic Studies, looking forwards to it!

That is so cool! I wish they offered a course like that at Georgia State, I'd sign up for it in an instant.

Kosburn59 wrote:

Philo wrote:

I'm studying Irish language and Celtic Studies, looking forwards to it!

That is so cool! I wish they offered a course like that at Georgia State, I'd sign up for it in an instant.

I've be learning Irish language all through high school here and I wanna be fluent in it, so this is the next logical sstep i guess haha

Its a minority language, even here in Ireland, but its growing

Philo wrote:

Kosburn59 wrote:

Philo wrote:

I'm studying Irish language and Celtic Studies, looking forwards to it!

That is so cool! I wish they offered a course like that at Georgia State, I'd sign up for it in an instant.

I've be learning Irish language all through high school here and I wanna be fluent in it, so this is the next logical sstep i guess haha

Its a minority language, even here in Ireland, but its growing

It might just be me, but it seems like most Europeans I've managed to come across have had to learn at least a second language in their studies, at least the ones from nations that aren't directly English. Obviously they offer to teach those courses in universities in America, but only French and Spanish seem to stick to anyone in grade school, if they even wish to learn them in the first place. I always felt like that was a little strange. I guess it makes sense just because the US is an island of it's own, and not connected to multiple other nations, excluding Mexico and Canada.

Well in Ireland and the UK learning a second language doesn't seem to be as important as say maths or english, in mainland Europe like Frace, Spain or Germany i think most people are almost fluent in a second language whereas here and in Britain its far less common. Although it is compulorary in the Republic of Ireland to learn Irish the whole way through High School. Where I am in Northern Ireland it was compulorary to do a second language at GCSE level, but thats been abolished.

French, Spanish and Irish would be the main languages on the cirriculum here and in Britain

ever since I applied for Graduation...I have no motivation to go to class.

Just registered for my last semester as an undergrad.


Classes I'll be taking in the spring:
Applied Anthropology
Human Variation, Behavior
Prehistoric North America
Historical Archaeology
Frontiers of Anthropology.

Dude, nice.

Personally I'm having a FUN time next semester.

Songwriting 1
Vocal techniques 2
Physical education
And something else.

Are you a music major or something? Unfortunately at my school to take music classes you have to have like classical training and all that stuff so I can't do it.

Nope, history major. But it's boring so fuck that.

I'm a history minor. I find history interesting for the most part, as long as I get to pick and choose time periods.

so I started graduate school applications....anyone in the US been thru this in recent years?

Kosburn59 wrote:

It might just be me, but it seems like most Europeans I've managed to come across have had to learn at least a second language in their studies, at least the ones from nations that aren't directly English. Obviously they offer to teach those courses in universities in America, but only French and Spanish seem to stick to anyone in grade school, if they even wish to learn them in the first place. I always felt like that was a little strange. I guess it makes sense just because the US is an island of it's own, and not connected to multiple other nations, excluding Mexico and Canada.

i think a lot of european students learn second, third, etc. languages from an early age (which is when it's easier, anyways), whereas in the US it's put off til high school and college that you absolutely take a second language, and even then, i think we have taken for granted so many years of being like the "#1 country" and expect other countries to know english, should we happen to travel there, and we don't bother to seriously learn any other languages. i mean, i've taken french before and seriously wanted to learn it, but thought, what's the point? if i don't know anyone else who speaks french with whom i can regularly converse, i will lose that skill anyways.

steph wrote:

i think a lot of european students learn second, third, etc. languages from an early age (which is when it's easier, anyways)

that's true, I started studying english when I was 5 years old and french when I was 11 and it helped A LOT.

If you want to speak french with someone just use those website like livemocha.com, I use that to practice russian!

Did my final anthropology exam. Studied literally nothing at all, landed myself a 42/50. TOO COOL FOR SCHOOL!

Harbortown wrote:

Did my final anthropology exam. Studied literally nothing at all, landed myself a 42/50. TOO COOL FOR SCHOOL!

Anthropology is the dopest field ever!!



this is coming from an Anthroplogy major.

Dude nice, hell yeah anthropology is awesome.

I loved the first few weeks of cultural anthropology because I got to make fun of goths a lot.

BULLY

Hey now.

so I told my mum about the postgraduate I've chosen and she made me a single question: ARE YOU ALONE, HOW ARE YOU GOING TO MAKE FRIENDS THERE?

I think that's endearing. She doesn't care that much about what you want to do in life as long as you are happy.

Harbortown wrote:

I think that's endearing. She doesn't care that much about what you want to do in life as long as you are happy.

I swear to god my mum thinks I am unable to make friends. She was surprised that so many people were at my graduation.

Which one did you go for?

Camus wrote:

Which one did you go for?

translation and interpreting in manchester!

plugga wrote:

Harbortown wrote:

I think that's endearing. She doesn't care that much about what you want to do in life as long as you are happy.

I swear to god my mum thinks I am unable to make friends. She was surprised that so many people were at my graduation.

Haha, I'm glad you proved her wrong!

plugga wrote:

Camus wrote:

Which one did you go for?

translation and interpreting in manchester!

...but that's not London!

Manchester is pretty good anyway