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Pupils at The Latymer School explain how languages may play an important role in their future.
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Student: I'd like to do medicine at university and I think language could help with that because you’re allowed to do six months abroad in a different country. And because I did German in school for five years I think, that could be useful if I were to go to Germany to do my six months abroad.
Student: I hope to study the social and political science at university and I think obviously language comes a lot.
Student: I'm doing medicine at university. I think my language will be quite useful in future with patients of Pakistani background or Indian background.
Student: I'm doing economics at university, but I think that the fact that Hungarian is so rare really doesn't make it that much of an asset for me. It’s more of just a cultural thing, something that makes me different, but I don’t think it will help me in any jobs.
Student: I want to study classics at university and I’ve got offers from King's Collage London, Warwick and Nottingham. I think my languages will help me just at really random times in my life as it has done so far.
Student: I'm hoping to do social and political sciences at university then do diplomacy and foreign affairs after that, so obviously language is quite useful. And it means that I might be able to get an internship at a Mauritian embassy which is quite helpful.
Student: I want to read law and Italian law at university and obviously my Italian’s going to be used a lot in the year abroad and in the preparation, and hopefully afterwards I’ll be able to work in Italy.
Student: I'm hoping to study biology at Oxford. Although I don’t think that languages have got that much in common with sciences, I think it will still help me in the future, just for everything around, and hopefully I’ll pick up more languages as I go.
Student: I'm hoping to study computer sciences at Cambridge, and I think that in a world where science and technology is moving so far and in such broad and diverse areas, I think that language skills are vital in communicating all around the world, and I hope to develop my own skills to help with that.
Student: I want to study aeronautical engineering at Imperial, and the course I’ve applied for, the third year is abroad, so being French I can go to a French university and that will really help. And also in engineering, they also make it really clear that you’re going to need to be able to speak another language.
Student: I’m hoping to study biomedical sciences, and I might consider taking a year out for travelling and seeing other cultures and different countries. So I think learning a new language would be something different and something new.
Teacher: Great, thank you.
Student: I'm hoping to study creative music technology, and music has always played a large part of my life. I’ve got offers from Kingston, Hertfordshire and Anglia Ruskin.
Student: I'm hoping to study law at Cambridge and I think languages will be very useful for communicating with. Especially in a multi-cultural society like London, it’ll be very useful for communicating with clients.
