I think I am going to declare Political Science soon. I just have to figure out if I'm going regular, or going for International Relations or History focus, or designing my own. If I design my own Poli Sci major it would just be tweaked a little. Shoot, I forgot to ping my real advisor, Dr. Carter.
It is my intention to take as many foreign language classes as possible. Next year for sure I will be doing Elementary Chinese and Int. Arabic. I wonder if Rosetta Stone Hindi would be a good idea over the summer.
As of yet I have no Block Break plans.
2 comments:
Good job Kate.
As far as languages go, is quantity better than quality? Have you given any thought to the possible jobs you'd like to have and if people in those jobs speak a couple languages really well or know enough to get by in a bunch of languages? Maybe something to discuss with a prof.
Also: is there some kind of job you could get over the summer that would help in your career. What about applying at the Mexican Consulate in PDX? Or the French Chamber of Commerce. Or something else along those lines. There's always that French-language summer camp that Mme. had info on last year. I know you have little to no free time, but it's probably better to start hunting now rather than wait until you're here.
Glad to know you're doing OK. Keep us posted.
Love,
M
The name Zachariah J. Falconer-Stout just screams "I rock." What a cool name.
As far as taking as many languages as possible, the wisdom of that pursuit depends on your goal: Are you aiming toward fluency or just exposure to basic structures and vocabulary? Unless you study them all simultaneously and in depth (which is not realistic), you're inevitably going to lose some of them. Sra. Raffaele told us that she used to be proficient in Italian and Portuguese but has lost a lot of both languages simply by not having many people with whom to use them. I could study Russian, but if I'm living in Chile then I will inevitably forget most of the Russian I've learned. Hypothetically speaking.
I don't mean to rain on your parade or anything--it's something I have to think about, too, since I'd like to learn a lot of languages, too. If you get Rosetta Stone, tell me how it goes/invite me over to practice because I've heard it's the next best thing to learning in a classroom or abroad. I thought about getting it in Italian but it was so bloody expensive that I opted out.
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