Foreign Perspectives

With them, you need to attach each course you do to a qualification so I attached the French to their general degree and also to the French Diploma.

Of course, although I was fluent enough by the end of the first course, momentum tends to get you to sign up for the next course in the sequence and by December 2004 I found myself the proud owner of a Diploma in French. I still get it out now and again in case it was all a dream!

Well, by that point we’d been picking up a growing number of Spanish guests so I figured that I should do a little Spanish to help me speak to them and to improve what was a dreadful Spanish translation of the website. Yet again, momentum carried me on a bit and, all being well, next year I’ll have a Spanish Diploma.

Remember that general degree that I was attaching all the courses to? Well, the French and Spanish diplomas added together are enough to get it!

Of course, now that I’ve reached that point, I’ve started thinking about the degree itself and it seems that by doing just one more course I can get BA Hons Modern Languages.

The other thing that I’ve noticed is that there’s a whole raft of degree titles that I could get by doing just one or two more courses…. A friend who did the French with me is close to having options such as BA Hons Humanities, BA Hons European Studies, BA Hons Humanities and European Studies,…..

In fact, the very first OU course that I did wasn’t the French but a small astronomy course. That course wouldn’t count towards the language degree of course so would be left over after I pick up the degree which may create a little bit of momentum to use that as the start of a future BSc degree….