This person is not only lying their ass off, but made clear they don’t even speak a second language. Just because you learned colloquial italian or whatever doesn’t mean you actually know a single gramatical rule, or better yet, how that language is written in formal texts, documents etc.
I know how English is written in formal documents. I don’t know in depth grammar but in general I wouldn’t need to. I just say what sounds correct. Why would an Italian person be unable to do the same?
edit: To be clear I’m not saying he isn’t lying. He definitely is.
Yeah, bet that went as well as all the Hispanic kids in high school taking Spanish as their 'easy A'... It was hilarious when they realized their easy A course turned out to be their hardest one because they didn't speak the particular dialect being taught and had to relearn their language to pass.
Can you have a degree in a language course? Like I get you can minor in languages, but can you major in it? Also what’s his minor going to be if it is possible to major in a language course.
I’m not even American and I can see that this story is made up BS.
You really shouldn’t underestimate what you can major in in college. If you’re interested in it, there’s probably a program for it somewhere, or a college with enough classes that you can build a program for it.
Anon thinks speaking and writing in a language is all there is to do in a bachelor’s degree. You literally have to read thousands of pages of literature, and need to be able to analyze those pieces critically.
Guys, is lying allowed on the Internet? I’m starting to think that Anon never even set foot in a college.
It is pretty hard to read if you don’t read though. Maybe someone out there can pull it off, but I’ve been trying for years now and haven’t made any progress.
When I was in college, I had a friend from Iran, she moved to America when she was a teenager. We had both an English and a Spanish class (which growing up I was taught Spanish pretty much every year) together. She did better in both than me. ☺️
That’s what they say, but in practice it’s just a class filter. Punctuality and hoop jumping matters MUCH MORE in blue collar jobs than white collar.
It’s literally just saying “your family was wealthy enough that you weren’t forced to enter the labor market to support your relatives when you were a teenager”.
I bootstrapped my way through college because poor family. But at 40 I’m making more than all but one cousin in my entire extended family, aunts/uncles/grandparents all make less than me because none of them went to college save for that one cousin. My degree was in organizational communication and was absolutely the thing that opened the doorway for me, and as much as I loved the major, it’s technically useless.
Turns out most of the white collar world runs like that too- show up early, late, or not at all; if your deliverables hit the bosses’ desk by deadline, you’re cream of the crop.
My manager has a bee in his bonnet about people being in on time, and he will come and yell at everybody if he notices someone turning up at about 9:15 rather than 9:00. The thing is he gets in it about 6:00 and then goes home at 3:30 and disappears from about 10:00 till 2:00 on a massive lunch, my official start time is 9:30 but often he isn’t actually in the main office, so how the hell does he know if people are turning up on time.
Yeah none of the jobs I’ve ever had have cared at all what my degree is in, it just shows that you can put up with bullshit for at least 3 years without having a freakout.
Language has nothing to do with intelligence, why does that one bit matter? It’s your environment that matters for language, there are plenty of stupid people from Europe or India or whatever who speak 2-5 languages like anyone else would… there are also plenty of Italians who are native English speakers because they grew up watching content by English-speaking people online (I know a few myself)
Yes there’s going to be a literature component and probably history and politics, although OP’s Italian equivalent of high school might have prepared him for those somewhat.
Not that this happened, but there absolutely would have been at least one suspicion. Nobody doesn't have an accent of some sort, and he'd have no way of knowing how accurate his pronunciation is all the way from Italy among other Italians. Everyone thinks they sound good til they hear themselves on a recording. His only way out would be to say his family is italian-american but he doesn't know the language very well. He might think of that. He's also on 4chan, though.
However, Americans are highly curious about others as a rule and the women reportedly thought he was at least ok, so someone would have asked where he was from regardless of what he sounded like. And then he would have been stuck playing 20 questions about a randomly chosen region he isn't familiar with and hoping to god whoever he's talking to isn't from there.
Green text probably isn’t true but I did have a German professor born and raised in Germany with a Master’s in “Conversational German” so it’s definitely not impossible.
If its a German degree - Germanistik is different from just German courses. It’s more about German literature - how the language evolved, why things are the way they are, analyzing uses of language and so on.
Not really a useful degree, but a degree you need to put work in nonetheless
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