Saturday, November 21st, 2009 at
10:03 am
So, after sorting out career options, I’ve decided to focus on linguistics and I have several questions on it.
I’m in 11th grade and I’m at that age where I need to decide on what colleges to do to and what I want to do for my life.
I’ve crossed out so many options and came up with linguist. Why?
I love learning new languages. I know Spanish and English of course. I’ve been to Germany, France, and Japan…so I experienced first-hand because I had host families and went to school there. Yada yada.
I managed to learn Finnish and Italian through CD-Roms and the internet. In my senior year, I will be taking Arabic. My mother has bought me a few books and CD-Roms that have 10 language-teaching programs on them. I find it so interesting to learn all of these and this is honestly what I’m considering.
But is that enough? How many languages should a linguist know? I guess it depends on where you want to go/do….
My high school has these classes called "concentrations" – sort of like majors in college. I’ve been in Language Arts for 4 years and this year my class is AP English and Composition. I’m very good with grammar and understanding parts of speech, ect….so that’s sufficient to learning more languages….right?
So….final questions:
But it doesn’t matter how many languages I know…I want to teach English as a second language in a different country.
Which countries have a semi-need/demand for English teachers….if there are any?
What majors would I take in college? Would I be able to take those in the United States or would I have to leave the country?
How long should I be in college to get a good career?
Where would you apply for a job like that?
Sorry this is so long…I just feel like I should know all of this stuff. Thanks in advance….