Blog Post 2 "Why did I choose my major?"

Originally I had studied International Relations--in which I got a Bachelor's Degree. I liked it, and it was interesting, but as time went on I had increasing doubts about working in that area. At least it was general enough that there were various employment opportunities.
Language was a part of that major, and I always really loved that. I studied Polish (and 2 years of Russian were obligatory), and then also worked as a translator and transcriber in the Polish Section of "Voice of America" radio station, so I had a very strong connection with language. Besides, I had grown up bilingually with German. Therefore, as a consequence, linguistic issues were always sort of present. Actually, I had been interested in the science and study of Linguistics from the start.
I was provisionally accepted to the MA program in Linguistics at George Mason University in 1989. I say provisionally because I had not actually studied it at the BA level, and they had doubts
about me. I was able to convince them due to my background as a translator and dealing with language so much. I did very well the first semester, so they accepted me to the program completely then. I really loved it. The program's focus was on Language Acquisition: How people learn/acquire language. I was receiving a kind of formation to possibly become an ESL teacher. I studied syntax, grammar, semantics, phonology, History of English, Historical Linguistics, and more... An added bonus is that in those times, studying was not so expensive. Nowadays, it's terribly prohibitively expensive in the US--I feel very sad for the students of today there.
As a consequence, I've become an ESL teacher. I'm very happy with my choice.






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  1. Mauricio Salinas17 de abril de 2019 a las 15:04

    i don't understand what is an ESL teacher but you are a verry cool guy in idioms and this is good for our if we want learn english

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  2. Belen Andrade17 de abril de 2019 a las 15:20

    It´s very cool that you speak others idioms, is very interesting and I would like to learn polish or German o Russian !

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  3. Oscar18 de abril de 2019 a las 15:32

    Russian and Polish are super strange languages for me D:

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  4. Gon zalo18 de abril de 2019 a las 21:42

    omg you would can speak with the half of the citizens of thw worls, if you want!

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  5. Feña Troncozo22 de abril de 2019 a las 18:34

    I would like to know so many languages

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  6. Valentina25 de abril de 2019 a las 15:32

    Wow, I would like to learn German, hopefully after passing English 4 I can do it.ajajaj

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  7. Anónimo2 de mayo de 2019 a las 11:07

    I do not know how you do it, the English already complicates me a lot :(

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  8. Victoria3 de mayo de 2019 a las 18:12

    Wow your story is amazing I would like to learn Italian and French and more idioms.
    You could give me any advice?

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  9. mari8 de mayo de 2020 a las 8:02

    It's so cool that you are doing what you want and like.

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  10. Francisca Morales9 de mayo de 2020 a las 21:26



    it's great that you know so many languages. I would also like to learn so many languages

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  11. Unknown16 de abril de 2022 a las 9:14

    ¡Great story! It's really amazing all the lenguages you know.

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