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What It's Really Like To Minor In A Language

The real thoughts and feelings of learning a foreign language...

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What It's Really Like To Minor In A Language
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For those of you who are minoring in a foreign language, you understand the love and frustrations of it. Whether it's the spelling, grammar, or complete and utter confusion, you're not alone.

You learn more English grammar than English class taught you...

You start learning about English contents that you never even knew existed.


Spelling is no longer something you're good at...

You find yourself thinking about how to spell really easy words.

Your classmates become your family...

Not only do you see the same people almost everyday, but you move up in classes with them. Inevitably you spend so much time together that you've all just attached yourselves to each other.


You can never prepare for 300 level classes...

In 100 and 200 level classes you're just learning vocabulary and conjugations, mostly understanding the professor. Then bam! You're suddenly taking harder classes and you can't even ask questions in English.


You've accepted that you'll make a fool of yourself...

Mispronouncing words is quite common, however, you feel like a fool when you're giving a presentation and you sound like Joey from Friends.


No one ever seems to know what the homework is...

Why would we check the syllabus when we can incessantly annoy each other about homework in group chats?


Google Translate is used more than you'd like to admit...

We just hope and pray the professor doesn't realize that entire sentence is from google translate.

You love when the professor says it's movie day...

Movie day means food and relaxing and you secretly know that the professor feels the same.


You make up any excuse to bring in food for "culture"...

Crêpes for French class would make sense, but instead how about we just bring buffalo chicken dip?


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