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Originally Posted by rdf084

This is a random question but I was curious if any of you on the board are majoring in or have a degree in a foreign language? I was thinking about pursuing Spanish myself. Anyways, I was curious what kind of professional possiblities are available if I chose to pursue this area. Thanks if you have any input

holy fuck. i used to teach your kind. i speak 3 languages (more or less) & i think "majoring" in any is a waste of fucking time. id rather pay for private or small group lessons where you advance much faster. as for the culture... meh...

if youre going to major in spanish youre going to be a schoolteacher. or some kind of teacher. if you're really sharp & want to waste your youth in poverty, then you could go into gradschool & become a professor. but "foreign language acquisition" is where the industry is going. teach all those managers to speak with their mexican workers. *everybody* is going to have to learn spanish sooner or later. (so why major in it?)

another possibility is you could major in international business w/ a minor in spanish. or some other field where the knowledge can come handy. but if spanish is your major, you are going to have to teach people to say "hola, mi nombre es paco".