German or Spanish?
Here is the thing. As I said in ly profile, I hope to be an interpreter in the future, I'm serious about it. Next semester I need to start my preparation for it and, it's time to begin my second foreign language course. It's required in my application for my master's degree. I'm not expected to do it as well as English, but if I do, I can go to a better university to realize my dream.
I thought about taking Japanese as my second foreign language. Because my cousin is a Japanese interpreter and has got married with a Japanese man. She could help me if I chose it. I had no problem in the pronunciation rule which made things even more easier. The problem is, I am not interested in it. It's Japanese, you know?
There will be Spanish course for me from next semester and the fee is very reasonable. 125 yuan for the whole semester, 2 classes a week, 90 minutes for each class. The problem is, I have no knowledge of Spanish except that you need to shake your tongue to pronounce R. Anyone here who is learning Spanish? It sounds like a language full of passion, right?
I'm also thinking about German. I've bought my textbooks and signed up for private German course. It cost me a lot. There is also crazy R in German but what terrifies me more is German grammar. Life is too short to learn German, but I really don't have much time for it.
I thought I could take them both. I could make it as long as I wanted to. But this evening I was told by a girl who is a senior that it was impossible to do both. I've begun to worry about it. Can I do it?
What do you think? German or Spanish? Or both? How?
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Yeah I am the screaming one in the desert again. But. Leah, also just consider to do neither. Only do this extra thing, if your main study, which still is law school, is going ok. First focus on your main task, if that goes alright, then, but not sooner, try to do something extra.
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If you want to learn Spanish you can start with spanishdict.com and even YouTube channel http://www.youtube.com/user/SpanishDict?feature=watch. There are also a lot of resources that you can use. I can also send some materials to you.
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Germany is the primary target for Chinese companies now. We've got the strongest economy in Europe and Spain just took shelter because their economy plummets into oblivion. Yes: Spanish has more people that speak it (according to wikipedia, Spanish is the native language of around 350 Mio. people, while German has only around 100 Mio.), no doubt. Spanish might also be a more "beautiful" language (who doesn't like Spanish girls? ;-)), but you want to be an interpreter, right? Think about future possibilities also, not only "Spanish is easier". If I chose the easiest language I surely wouldn't be learning Mandarin.
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Nothing against German but if you think it this way, there are more people and more countries around the globe who's native language is Spanish. I mean, I'm just saying :)))
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I don't know if Spanish is a language full of passion,but I really interested in some female singer who sing in Spanish really powerful,and lively, they open their mouth largely and they are full of passion, quite infectiously! It is a great language for music. : )))
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