FROM OXFORD UNIVERSITY'S PROFESSOR OF JAPANESE! He emailed me back! I can't believe it. I'm flattered that someone so high up such a posh ivory tower would write to a drug addict like me. (Of course my email mentioned nothing about my personal circumstances, but you get where I'm coming from.) He gave three book titles I was able to key into Amazon, and comparing reviews and other recommendations finally get somewhere.I am still hammering away at (attemptedly) finding university courses that might be suitable. As it's now standing it looks like it will be FAR CHEAPER to study German IN GERMANY... and a lot of the universities I looked at offer it in combination with Japanese minor.
Tuition fees in Germany are nonexistent (Berlin Free University) or about £500 a year at some other places - compared to £3300 per annum everywhere here.
And if you ARE going to study German, it seems more than faintly bizarre to move to Manchester to do it... when I could get on a better course in Deutschland!
My German is presently WAY too weak to apply now - even if I DID win the lottery... but in a year or two's time ... who knows!
Longterm readers of this page might feel slightly confounded by my past fixations on Spanish... Hebrew... German... Japanese... Can't I pick one thing and stick with it? I'm afraid my mind doesn't work that way. I circle round, like an intellectual vulture (wearing reading glasses) and after tearing away at several putrid carcasses at last find a fresh one that pleases me...
And so it was with these languages. And if I DO apply to an undergrad course, experience has told me you ought ONLY go for things towards which you are highly motivated. Otherwise university will be a dreary time-and-a-half... Or to drop out and fail as I did ... TWICE!
Got to go. I'm off to check Amazon Reviews again...
I'm pleased you got a reply Gleds - well done that professor!
ReplyDeleteI hope you do get to go to Germany and learn the language to the standard you would like. :)
Glad that you heard back and have a plan. It's good to have goals and a passion for something.
ReplyDeletefollow ur dreams, chase em, and even if some of them dun come true, atleast u tried :)
ReplyDeleteGood luck Gledz n tnxx for stopping by to say Hi!
Cheers
Keshi.
Run after your dreams, Gled, chase it down and grab it and hold it in a head lock!
ReplyDeleteJanice~
There is an optomistic tone in this entry! V. nice :)
ReplyDeleteStudying a language in it's country of origin has to be the best option. Not only do you get the theoretical tuition but you also practice their vernacular and begin to 'think' in that language. Good luck!
ReplyDeleteAKELAMALU: I KNOW WASN'T THAT QUICK!
ReplyDeleteSYD: AYE! AND I LUURVE JAPANESE. (+ GERMAN LITERATURE...)
KESHI: THANKS. I SHALL!
JANICE: I WILL MURDER THE SWINE!
(OR MAYBE I'M TOO NICE FOR MURDER ...)
REENY: AYE! ;->...
BAINO: YES IT DOES SEEM VERY BIZARRE TO STUDY IT ANYWHERE ELSE.
HAVING SAID THAT THAT "GERMAN AS SECOND LANGUAGE DEGREE" LOOKED TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE AND WAS. IT WAS FOR GERMAN AS SECOND LANGUAGE STUDENTS FROM ABROAD DOING THE 2ND/3RD YEAR OF A LANGUAGES DEGREE, WHICH YOU ALWAYS DO ABROAD, IN GERMANY ...
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