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Old Mar 12, 2018, 09:52 AM
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Originally Posted by ArcheM View Post
I've been wondering more and more if there isn't a job out there for which the main duty is learning languages. I'm just bored senseless at my current one, which makes me wistful for a simple textbook, and for new and interesting languages, like Gothic, which is extinct, but apparently there are textbooks even for it... But, o je, as a German would say, das ist sinnlos. Or rather, of course there is a job like that, something like "university linguistics professor". Except I'm nowhere near that and barely scraping by in terms of money.
If there was a job where I would get paid to learn German (for what purpose, who knows), I'd take it. Linguist is the closest I can think of and you need an university education for that.
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