talking 'bout language again.

i've had days where i feel like flooding my brain with foreign languages.
don't you just hate the fact that there are so many different languages in the world that sometimes it makes it hard for us to connect to other people?
i mean, there is such a huge variety of it, even linguists are unable to come up with a sum of the languages that exist on earth.
so if we were to take up a new language, which one should we go for?
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a couple of weeks ago, i've decided to learn to speak french,
on the upcoming semester that is.
then i had friends telling me that i should just go for it because it's easy to score,
it's not a hard paper to pass,
there isn't much things to do (coursework, i mean)
so okay, maybe i WILL pick up french...
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then last night i saw a random status about a person's regret in taking a particular subject because it seems hard to understand the theories (or something)...
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it made me think:
do we agree/let ourselves take up a subject, just because it's easy to score?
just because we want to collect credit units?
what is the point of studying when you don't really bother about anything taught in the subject except to pass the final exams at the end of each semester?
why are we even enrolling ourselves into universities, if all we wanted is to buy ourselves an express ticket into the top positions of the work-pyramid, with no real qualifications in terms of basic knowledge of the required skills in the occupation?
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but anyway, even if we ARE passionate about the particular subject,
other judgemental people in the room might just think that you're trying to suck up to the lecturer,
heck, the lecturer him/herself might not even believe your over-flowing passion for it to be real.
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my (ex)-english lecturer asked a question on the first session she had with us,
"who's here not because of the university made it compulsory to take LSP402? who's here to learn english, honestly"...
yes, i was the only one who raised up my hand.
her response was a bit insulting (to me),
"really?"
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i can't deny, i was hurt.
even if the university did not make it compulsory for us to take up english,
i'd still register for the course one way or another,
because english is practically my mother tongue,
not mandarin, not hokkien, and of course, not bm.
i spoke english most in my life,
and having spent so much time with it,
i am obviously interested to see if there's anything more that i could learn about it.
so to squash my goal like that, is an insult not only to me, but also her profession.
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which brings me to french.
easy to score,
the potential of classes to get cancelled abruptly when the lecturer wants to,
not too much to do for the coursework part.
so.....does that literally means that i won't get to master the language properly?
i don't want that.
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i just hate people saying "oh it's so easy to score the paper, you should take it" as an encouragement.
if i want nothing else but to pass exam papers, i wouldn't even consider to pick up extra subjects,
i could've just joined some co-curricular activities for 3semesters, receive my 3U-units,
and go home, hide in my room, and study to pass my other papers.
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suddenly i don't want to learn french anymore.
the accent is sexy, but besides that, i don't think i like anything else about France.
i don't even like french food. (is french fries even french???)
foie gras, escargot, truffle.........not interested.
i find the fashion over there are either too over-the-top or too boring,
frankly, who wears fur coats on a random day in Malaysia?
siao!
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on the other hand....
attending Andre Rieu's concert is one of the things i have in my bucket list, right beside sky-diving and belly-dancing.
his concerts are the best.
i love the Johann Strauss orchestra...
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but he usually holds his concerts in Vienna (i think)..
it think it's because he liked a particular building-that-i-don't-know-what-it's-called-'cause-he-called-it-in-freakin'-german in Vienna...  =.='
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i want to go to his concert so badly...