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Post by Olive on Jun 13, 2011 8:04:10 GMT -5
I want to study abroad... gah, Europe, why are you so expensive! Look at other schools. My school offers a program called NIU at Oxford. It's about $10,000 total (that's including airfare, which isn't included in the program price, and various other odds and ends) for five weeks studying at Oriel College, Oxford University. I went two years ago, in 2009, and while there we had a non-NIU student. Basically, he registered with us as a student-at-large, filed the paperwork, and was eligible to go. So if you start looking into programs other schools offer, you should be able to do so. Said student was also from a state or two away, so it's not impossible. Unless I win the lottery or something equally unlikely happens, I'm not going to be able to afford a semester abroad. I'm maxed out on financial aid, on top of academic scholarships and working, and I barely make my relatively-cheap tuition payments every semester. For the first time this fall I might, might be able to reject my unsubsidized loan. However, I'm contemplating taking it anyways and shoving the $2,000 in the bank so that I can use it for a month long study abroad in Vienna next spring. Here's hoping that I eventually become a successful author so that I can afford to just move there... (Not Vienna, but somewhere in Germany/Austria.) |
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Post by iamahexagon on Jun 19, 2011 12:27:21 GMT -5
I'm going into my third year of learning Spanish, so I'm not fluent...yet. I can speak and write (what I know) fairly well, but, like many other here, I've never really had the chance to use it other than in class. I want to go to Mexico on vacation, but my parents believe that we would most definitely get captured and killed by drug lords just be stepping into a tourist section of Mexico. I would go to Spain, but my teachers have always had a grudge against it, making my impression not so good.
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Post by hitzelc on Jun 28, 2011 7:46:41 GMT -5
I will not call myself fluent in any language but English  I am however going into my third year of Spanish (it's the fourth year, but Spanish I was a two year ordeal back in middle school.) I have enrolled in a German class for next spring on a virtual high school website and have a German speaking part of my family I hope to use to my advantage. I am slowly teaching myself Italian via the Internet. I also have plans to get a grasp on French and I would love to learn Greek. As for fluency in any of them, I do not know what I am capable of but I have my doubts haha. |
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Post by Inquisitive White Rabbit on Jul 22, 2011 8:52:48 GMT -5
I speak fluent Spanish even though English is my primary language. However, I'd love to learn Russian and Italian.
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Post by Inquisitive White Rabbit on Jul 22, 2011 9:07:29 GMT -5
I'm going into my third year of learning Spanish, so I'm not fluent...yet. I can speak and write (what I know) fairly well, but, like many other here, I've never really had the chance to use it other than in class. I want to go to Mexico on vacation, but my parents believe that we would most definitely get captured and killed by drug lords just be stepping into a tourist section of Mexico. I would go to Spain, but my teachers have always had a grudge against it, making my impression not so good. Well, have you tried finding someone to practice with? That's what my friend Kelly did when she was learning German. I had her practice with my brother through the phone and Skype since he's fluent. I can help you practice.  |
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Post by tosney on Jul 22, 2011 18:59:26 GMT -5
I'm learning spanish! I'm pretty good, though a little slow at speaking it and understanding it spoken. I can write it almost as fast as I can write english, though. I've been practicing with my spanish exchange student some and I intend to continue doing so.
However, I really hate certain tenses and apparently the Spanish don't really use the tenses I hate anyways so I'm a little bitter at having to learn them. *crosses arms*. Subjunctive is fine but I can't remember all the rules for past perfect, future perfect, present perfect, etc. all at once. It doesn't help that they try to teach us all six of those in two days. /end rant.
The tenses I know, though, I can handle pretty well.
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Post by Inquisitive White Rabbit on Jul 23, 2011 10:08:35 GMT -5
XD Well, I can't remember what I did to learn everything. it's gotten to the point where I do it automatically. :s However, I still wouldn't mind helping anyone who wishes to practice. :3
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Jul 23, 2011 20:25:51 GMT -5
I'm not bilingual (AT ALL), but I'm in the midst of a job hunt and it seems like most of the listings I see ask that applicants be fluent in Spanish. Which I'm not. The few that don't ask for Spanish? They ask for Mandarin.
(PS: I don't speak Mandarin either.)
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rayyychul
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Post by rayyychul on Jul 23, 2011 20:49:56 GMT -5
I'm starting to think I would have been better off learning Mandarin or Cantonese instead of French, honestly.
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Post by Dodger Thirteen on Jul 24, 2011 2:16:32 GMT -5
Yep. Are you really surprised? China is becoming extremely influential, so being able to communicate with them will be important in the coming years.
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Jul 24, 2011 2:22:03 GMT -5
Yep. Are you really surprised? China is becoming extremely influential, so being able to communicate with them will be important in the coming years. Plus, if we believe that Firefly is our future (and, come on, who doesn't?), the internet and foul language will be in Mandarin. All the best things in life! |
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Post by Inquisitive White Rabbit on Jul 24, 2011 18:42:10 GMT -5
Yikes. Well if thats the case I'd better have my brother teach me Chinese. >.> He knows enough to communicate. Not fluent, but pretty close.
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Post by verbumsat on Aug 4, 2011 3:24:48 GMT -5
Chinese eh. I've read Tang poems as a kid, and I've always been struck by how beautifully they describe scenery. Chinese is my mother tongue, English is my first language, and Japanese my third language. I'm not particularly good at Japanese though, I can only read books like Toto-chan and that's sort of grade-school level. :\
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