Postby Suzie » Fri Apr 29, 2022 12:51 pm
I am another candidate who fell in love with the English language during school. I even seriously considered studying English at uni, but to my parents' great relieve I went into (the financially more promising) STEM instead after realizing that English studies at university level is mostly about English literature, and I am not that much into that. A career in sciences allows me to work primarily in English rather in German, so I am getting the best of both worlds!
First, during school, I was constantly amazed by new words, the expressions, the sounds (a love that I feel for any language that I have learned since). In my early career days, I decided to study at an English university part-time, aside my day-to-day job. It was mostly distance learning, but during each stay I had a huge TV party going on every night, celebrating the opportunity to watch all the cool UK channels. (That was before streaming was a thing, I must add.) I think it was then when I fell in love with British English specifically. I adore listening to the Queen, enjoy the sound of RP in BBC news, and am thrilled every time I hear a local dialect within UK and Ireland. Today, thanks to the internet, I think I am far more familiar with British pop culture than German one, just because I love the sound of the language so much.
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