Studying Languages ​​Abroad: What to Study, Where to Study and Future Prospects

Linguistics is a field of extensive study of language, including its structure, meaning, origin, development, and usage. In addition, Linguistics also provides learners with knowledge of phonetics, semantics and syntax (grammar),... Language learning not only focuses on learning a specific language, but also needs to learn about the nature of language in general, how language impacts thinking and society...

Languages is one of the fundamental disciplines, playing an important role in the fields of humanities, related to and dominating many other fields. Learning a language provides knowledge about that language, helping learners develop their thinking capacity and build themselves good language use and analysis skills. Linguistics today is not only necessary in a variety of fields, but also increasingly shows its importance as an intensive science.

Currently, students who want to study languages abroad have many different choices such as French, German, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Japanese or simply Linguistics or Modern English... Understanding the knowledge values of linguistics makes this discipline close, useful to practice but also very interesting and new to explore.

If you want to pursue Linguistics and develop a career related to this field, you will need to have the right skills and qualities such as:

• Have a passion for the industry, relevant professional knowledge.

• Good ability to analyze and synthesize information.

• Always hardworking, passionate about learning, exploring and researching.

• Patient, careful, meticulous in study and work.

• Ability to use words in communication, expression, and presentation well.

• Good thinking and creativity ability.

• Passion and understanding of areas in life and society.

The Linguistics program provides in-depth and advanced knowledge of language, culture, society, as well as the skills to explore different aspects of Linguistics in a specialized direction. With the comprehensive and diverse training roadmap of the Language major, the knowledge of Linguistics can be classified into 3 groups as follows:

• Intensive subjects:

  Teaching language theory such as Phonetics, Phonetics, Vocabulary, Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics, Semiotics, General Languages, History of Linguistics,... Completing these courses will help students have in-depth and pure knowledge of Language, equipped with skills such as analyzing and synthesizing problems related to language science.

• Group of interdisciplinary subjects

  : Literary Linguistics, Textual Linguistics, Comparative Linguistics, Cultural Linguistics, Social Linguistics, Psychological Linguistics... These are subjects that are related and intersect with other fields, providing students with the ability to present, draft administrative documents, and compare languages; feeling, processing, decoding artistic documents...

• Highly applicable subject groups

  : These subjects are applied to solve practical problems in a specific field, including Grammar, Computer Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Linguistics in Publishing, Journalism, etc Language and communication...

The Language major is currently very interesting and chosen by many students to study as a trending major in society. If you are looking to study Languages abroad, choosing to study in English-speaking countries to immerse yourself in the language, and develop your skills holistically is a great idea. Some typical countries that train Language majors include:

• Training Courses Languages in Australia

  Some of the top schools offering a wide range of Language courses in Australia are the University of New England, University of Canberra, The University of Melbourne, Murdoch University, Western Sydney University, The University of Adelaide,...

• Training Courses English Languages: Some of the top schools offering a wide range of Language courses in England are Manchester Metropolitan University, Aberystwyth University, SOAS University of London, University of Exeter, University of Reading,...

• Training Courses Languages in the U.S.: Some of the top schools with language courses in the USA are New York University, University of Cincinnati, University of North Carolina Wilmington, University of Delaware,...

• Industry Training Courses Languages in Canada: Some of the top schools offering a wide range of Language courses in Canada are the University of Alberta, University of Lethbridge, Western University (Ontario), York University, University of Manitoba,...

• Industry Training Courses Languages in New Zealand: Some of the top schools offering a wide range of Language courses in New Zealand are the University of Auckland, the University of Otago, the University of Canterbury, The University of Waikato, Victoria University of Wellington,...

If you need more information about studying Linguistics, please contact IDP's counseling staff for free support and advice.

With a good foundation when studying Languages, you can flexibly combine your field of study with other fields in the current diverse market. Especially with the trend of globalization, knowing a second language brings a lot of value to learners. The areas that Language students can choose from are:

• Journalism: You can become an editor, reporter, or editor of newspapers, magazines, or positions in a press agency. In addition, it is possible to produce TV scripts, and short film scripts, write content, and host programs in media and television companies.

• Field of training: Become a teacher, or lecturer in Languages at universities, colleges, intermediate schools, vocational schools, vocational training centers, etc. Or working as a teacher of Foreign Languages at high schools and secondary schools.

• Field of study: Language research, specialized and interdisciplinary research at research centers or working at universities, colleges, etc.

• Translation field

  : Working at publishing houses, editing books, newspapers, magazines, publishing, translating documents, contracts, books, articles, etc. from one language to another or translating directly at meetings, conferences, events...

• Document management: Doing office administrative tasks such as administration, management, document drafting, document system management,...

• Marketing: Communication, advertising, content development for businesses and companies in the fields of marketing, public relations, and diplomacy.

• Art field: Poetry composition, music, art criticism,...

• Archiving: Doing the work of storing information, data, and management at centers, libraries, schools or linguistic information processing units.

• Field of State Management

  : Participating in research and management of language, ethnicity, culture-society, preservation of national language and culture, etc.

The salary of the Language major currently does not have specific statistics, for the reason that when graduating from the language major, students can develop their careers in many different fields, the salary from which also varies depending on the job, capacity, and experience of each individual. However, when you are proficient in a foreign language, any profession will certainly have an extremely attractive salary.

The starting salary of a Bachelor of Language graduate is usually from 400 to 700 USD/month (about 9 - 15 million VND) or higher when doing specific jobs at businesses and agencies applying to Languages

Hope the above article has provided you with information about Study Abroad in Languages from training programs, teaching schools, and skills required when studying Languages to career opportunities in this field. If you need more information about a language or other discipline, you can access the feature Course Search of IDP.

Study abroad advice or contact IDP to be consulted by the consultant to choose the school and country to study abroad per your capacity and interests.

In particular, you can participate in the IDP Study Abroad Seminar held regularly throughout the year to have the opportunity to meet directly with representatives of the university, Hunt for scholarships to study abroad, and consider the study abroad application directly.

If you want to estimate the cost of living and tuition fees when studying abroad, you can also actively use IDP's Study Abroad Cost Calculator.

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