On March 16th 2020, Universities and schools across the UK announced that they were shutting down for quarantine. By the 21st of the same month, almost all students had returned to their family homes, many of us with plans to work, study or travel abroad suddenly cancelled. The six months at home stretched out like…
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Tips for Thailand
I’m Chloe, a final year French and History student, and the Travel Editor for the Linguist this year. Last summer I travelled around Thailand for 5 weeks, so I consider myself clued-up on what to see, and how to get the best value for money! Therefore, I present my top 10 tips for travelling in…
Playing in an orchestra abroad – a whole new world of music….
I am Holly Hunt, the Chair of the UoB Linguist magazine. I am a fourth year Modern Languages and Music student and I spent my third year abroad in Grenoble, France. As a violinist, I was eager to use music as a way to make friends and experience something new while living abroad. I had…
Being a linguist in Brexit Britain
By Freya Richold Over three years ago, our country voted to leave the European Union. I was fifteen years old at the time and so, like millions of teenagers, could not vote. I am now nineteen, and the country has finally left and has entered a period of the unknown. This will greatly affect many…
Les joies d’étudier une langue à l’étranger
de Flick Hemming Étant une étudiante anglaise Erasmus dans une université italienne, j’ai eu de drôles expériences en étudiant le français avec des italiens, et l’italien avec mes camarades Erasmus originaires de partout dans le monde. Souvent les choses que me frappent le plus dans les cours sont les erreurs ou les différentes assomptions que…
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