Level 3 - Post 2 (week 4) Why did you choose this career/study programme?
Write about:
- your dream jobs when you were a child
- other career options that you had at the moment of applying to university
- what made you decide in the end
- your experience at university until now
- the kind of job you would like to have
> don't forget to leave comments on 3 of your classmates posts and on your teacher's post as well.
I studied English Linguistics, and I always thought "what would my future job be?". And here I am!!
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I studied English Linguistics, and I always thought "what would my future job be?". And here I am!!
I always wanted to have a fun, light, easy going and not too hard to do job, but always wanted to be with people.
From all the many areas I could work in, I always wanted something neither too-much outdoors nor indoors. Furthermore I wanted something that would produce some kind of social change, a good, important and deep change.
Moreover, I wanted to travel, to see the world, to meet strange people, well... strange meaning, different from me, and my friends, and family. While teaching languages, I have been able to do all the former, which leads me to think it was the right choice.
I tried working in an office once. It was a job not as stressful as a teacher's job, but after a year, and after missing the classrooms a lot, I decided to go back to stressful, challenging but rewarding teaching.
Nowadays, I am thinking on taking up on PHD studies in the field of Applied Linguistics, I would like to do it either in the Netherlands, Switzerland and/or England.
I would like to do it in those countries, in the two first ones, actually. This is because both have a long history of successful multilingualism and also they are definitely good at languages. England, on the other hand, would be my last choice. This is because of a fact that gave birth to a joke, that is, - and please, no offense-, the joke goes: "how do you call a person who speaks only one language? […] you call them British"...LOL
Hi, I think that it was a good decision it is important, because it is what we are going to do are rest of life.
ResponderBorrarRegards!
I think that study English Linguistic and teach language were very good decisions, because -as you said- it allows to know different cultures.
ResponderBorrarIt's typical in the first class of the university tell to the teacher and the classmates why you choose the career, jajaja. That question always has complicated me! :(
ResponderBorrarRegards!
Hello again teacher, second comment in one day hehe
ResponderBorrarStudying languages is always a hard thing but teaching that it's a lot harder. Netherlands or Switzerland... it's a hard choice, but personally, I like Switzerland !
Teacher should watch some movie of Raúl Ruiz. He developed different languages and the speak form of the speakers in this films. And He make a language! (Het dak van de Walvis, 1982 and La colonia penitenciaria, 1970)
ResponderBorrarhi teacher, i think that your career it's exciting... good choice!
ResponderBorrarRegards.
That's an interesting joke, teacher. I like that kind of stuff.
ResponderBorrar