Anon thinks speaking and writing in a language is all there is to do in a bachelor's degree. You literally have to read thousands of pages of literature, and need to be able to analyze those pieces critically.
Guys, is lying allowed on the Internet? I'm starting to think that Anon never even set foot in a college.
Uses 4chan
"Drowning in pussy"
Yeah, checks out.
I mean, they still spent all that money to just be a language major for a teaching job on another continent.
I'm a native English speaker with an English teacher for a parent and i didn't even pass highschool English.
My condolences
condo-what now
When I was in college, I had a friend from Iran, she moved to America when she was a teenager. We had both an English and a Spanish class (which growing up I was taught Spanish pretty much every year) together. She did better in both than me. ☺️
If I have to read Of Mice And Men ever again I swear to God.
Got a degree by taking only Italian language courses. Sure.
Too retarded to study anything, but learned to speak perfect American English with no discernible accent?
I'd imagine there is also a lot more to a language BA than just being able to perfectly speak it, but I don't really know.
Yes there's going to be a literature component and probably history and politics, although OP's Italian equivalent of high school might have prepared him for those somewhat.
I can pick out regional North American accents, if he had any American peers I bet there were suspicions.
Not that this happened, but there absolutely would have been at least one suspicion. Nobody doesn't have an accent of some sort, and he'd have no way of knowing how accurate his pronunciation is all the way from Italy among other Italians. Everyone thinks they sound good til they hear themselves on a recording. His only way out would be to say his family is italian-american but he doesn't know the language very well. He might think of that. He's also on 4chan, though.
However, Americans are highly curious about others as a rule and the women reportedly thought he was at least ok, so someone would have asked where he was from regardless of what he sounded like. And then he would have been stuck playing 20 questions about a randomly chosen region he isn't familiar with and hoping to god whoever he's talking to isn't from there.
Language has nothing to do with intelligence, why does that one bit matter? It's your environment that matters for language, there are plenty of stupid people from Europe or India or whatever who speak 2-5 languages like anyone else would... there are also plenty of Italians who are native English speakers because they grew up watching content by English-speaking people online (I know a few myself)
Speaking English with an accent from anywhere sounds weird but apart from a select few states, Americans sound so weird to me.
Still had to know two languages well, that’s far from fuck all lol
If you're born into it it's pretty much fuck all tbh.
Pretty much fuck all everywhere except 'murica
Yeah, bet that went as well as all the Hispanic kids in high school taking Spanish as their 'easy A'... It was hilarious when they realized their easy A course turned out to be their hardest one because they didn't speak the particular dialect being taught and had to relearn their language to pass.
This person is not only lying their ass off, but made clear they don't even speak a second language. Just because you learned colloquial italian or whatever doesn't mean you actually know a single gramatical rule, or better yet, how that language is written in formal texts, documents etc.
I know how English is written in formal documents. I don't know in depth grammar but in general I wouldn't need to. I just say what sounds correct. Why would an Italian person be unable to do the same?
edit: To be clear I'm not saying he isn't lying. He definitely is.
He's lying but not because of his language ability.
Nobody writing greentext drowns in pussy.
Can you have a degree in a language course? Like I get you can minor in languages, but can you major in it? Also what's his minor going to be if it is possible to major in a language course.
I'm not even American and I can see that this story is made up BS.
You can solely major in a language.
University if Washington’s offerings for Asian languages are included here: https://www.washington.edu/students/gencat/program/S/AsianLanguagesandLiterature-144.html
English: https://www.washington.edu/students/gencat/program/S/English-136.html
Finnish, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and others: https://www.washington.edu/students/gencat/program/S/ScandinavianStudies-281.html
And there are more like German, near eastern languages, Spanish, and Slavic languages.
If you want an example of Italian, go to Santa Clara University: https://www.scu.edu/cas/modernlanguages/academic-programs/italian/
Or Uc Davis: https://www.ucdavis.edu/majors/italian
Or ASU: https://degrees.apps.asu.edu/bachelors/major/ASU00/LAITABA/italian?init=false&nopassive=true
You really shouldn’t underestimate what you can major in in college. If you’re interested in it, there’s probably a program for it somewhere, or a college with enough classes that you can build a program for it.
Mamma mia!
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