I may have to make that higher priority now then
Haha, doesn't matter, what's done is done. It would've been stupidly impractical for coming back home as well anyway!
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I may have to make that higher priority now then
Haha, doesn't matter, what's done is done. It would've been stupidly impractical for coming back home as well anyway!
I'm fluent in English , Dutch , French and Lebanese and I speak a bit of German.
Quite pleased with that , I mentioned it like 467 times in my personal statement
I didn't really but I mentioned it haha.
Are you actually pulling my chain?! They'll probably accept you just cause that's almost unbelievable! I can only imagine how the Lebanese got in there...
Did you consider doing Marketing + a language? They do it in loads of places and you'd be probably guaranteed a place just because of that proof of multilingual ability. Plus, you could probably walk into jobs at the UN, EU etc, especially if you learn Spanish as an optional module at uni.
Also, do me a favour and don't look at my post history. At least 2 or 3 recent posts have been in my pigeon french, probably very bad grammar. I've learnt to 'talk around' stuff like a football manager, eg. instead of saying 'it's the best in the world' (which I don't know), I'll say 'it's the number one'. But I'd get found out by a real live french person.
You better give me a potted history of how you picked up all those languages...
Without tooting my own horn , I'm actually quite proud of myself! So where do I start :
Living in the Dutch speaking part of Belgium hence me speaking Dutch. We have to learn French from the age of 11 to 18 so that's why I'm pretty good in French. Raised in an English speaking family so that's where the English comes from. Lebanese , which is why I speak Lebanese.
I actually wanted to learn Cantonese/Chinese as everyone's telling me that I could get work anywhere I wanted if I learned that and that China is the future etc.
Opted against it though.
Without tooting my own horn , I'm actually quite proud of myself! So where do I start :
Living in the Dutch speaking part of Belgium hence me speaking Dutch. We have to learn French from the age of 11 to 18 so that's why I'm pretty good in French. Raised in an English speaking family so that's where the English comes from. Lebanese , which is why I speak Lebanese.
I actually wanted to learn Cantonese/Chinese as everyone's telling me that I could get work anywhere I wanted if I learned that and that China is the future etc.
Opted against it though.
Lucky sod. I've never been good at languages, would have given up a lot of stuff to have a natural ability for them. Getting a copy of Rosetta Stone to try to learn French/German/Italian though (indecision doesn't help either...)
Without tooting my own horn , I'm actually quite proud of myself! So where do I start :
Living in the Dutch speaking part of Belgium hence me speaking Dutch. We have to learn French from the age of 11 to 18 so that's why I'm pretty good in French. Raised in an English speaking family so that's where the English comes from. Lebanese , which is why I speak Lebanese.
I actually wanted to learn Cantonese/Chinese as everyone's telling me that I could get work anywhere I wanted if I learned that and that China is the future etc.
Opted against it though.
That's really cool. You should toot your own trumpet, no one would blame you for it. you can speak a billion languages, i'd say it's worthy of a boast or two.
Without tooting my own horn , I'm actually quite proud of myself! So where do I start :
Living in the Dutch speaking part of Belgium hence me speaking Dutch. We have to learn French from the age of 11 to 18 so that's why I'm pretty good in French. Raised in an English speaking family so that's where the English comes from. Lebanese , which is why I speak Lebanese.
I actually wanted to learn Cantonese/Chinese as everyone's telling me that I could get work anywhere I wanted if I learned that and that China is the future etc.
Opted against it though.
Got a pretty good backup job as an interpreter there.
Thanks mate.
Just have to put some time into it and I'm sure it'll work out. Out of all the languages I had to learn I actually think French is the easiest one as it has the least amount of grammatical exceptions etc. German is very difficult.
Sounds right from my minimal knowledge, although I always preferred German (I learnt French & German to GCSE). Succession of bad teachers in French (although my last teacher was good. He looked like Frodo, if he was tall. So, er, like Elijah Wood).
German is extremely similar to Dutch except Dutch is much easier! No weird looking letters and all that
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German is extremely similar to Dutch except Dutch is much easier! No weird looking letters and all that
Shame it's always the difficult languages spoken by 150 million Europeans!
Without tooting my own horn , I'm actually quite proud of myself! So where do I start :
Living in the Dutch speaking part of Belgium hence me speaking Dutch. We have to learn French from the age of 11 to 18 so that's why I'm pretty good in French. Raised in an English speaking family so that's where the English comes from. Lebanese , which is why I speak Lebanese.
I actually wanted to learn Cantonese/Chinese as everyone's telling me that I could get work anywhere I wanted if I learned that and that China is the future etc.
Opted against it though.
If you can speak three languages fluently, you can get a job as an interpreter (not a translator) in the UN/EU. Speaking Lebanese and a bit of German means you can get paid loads (my French teacher said the pay is worked out as 40k + 20k per fluent language + 10k partial language, so you'd be on like 130k per year.)
My cousin speaks English, French, Spanish, Portugese, Italian and some Spanish, so she's looking at something like that.