This is the first post on this blog that is not related to the After Babel course. I completed this course with a 9.0, which is the highest grade I have ever got during my time in Maastricht. This might be an indicator of the joy I had taking this course, so much that I even considered studying multilingualism in Groningen. However, in the end I chose to go to stay in my beloved Maastricht to enroll in the master’s programme of Public Policy and Human Development. In this last week before the courses start, I wanted to start writing on this blog again. Me still being interested in languages and language policies wants to try to continue this blog from a language perspective.
Author: lotte.chin-kon-sung
Hey!
I'm Lotte, 21 years old, European Studies graduate, cat lover and food addict. Yup, that's not very logical, which seems to fit me. I started this blog for the course After Babel in the final year of my Bachelor's. Now that I graduated I will try and update it from time to time also concerning topics outside of the course.
Adios muchachos.
European Language Policies
During the past few weeks of this After Babel course many topics regarding sociolinguistics and multilingualism have passed. The end of this course built up to the topic of European language policies and the practical success of these policies. In this final blog entry for the course, I will reflect on these policies and try to determine whether these policies are successful and lasting for the future.
Linguistic Landscapes
Minority languages
Aangezien ik persoonlijk weinig ervaring heb met minority languages, vond ik het moeilijk om een onderwerp te vinden voor deze blog. Daarom besloot ik het logisch aan te pakken en een stuk over een minority language in Nederland te schrijven. De enige andere erkende taal in Nederland, naast het Nederlands (ofwel ABN), is Fries.
English Medium Instruction at UM
‘Waarom ga je in godsnaam naar Maastricht?’
Dit was een veel voorkomende reactie toen ik mijn vrienden op de middelbare school vertelde dat ik na de zomer naar de andere kant van het land zou verhuizen. Aan de studie zelf kon het toch niet liggen, want European studies kon je toch ook gewoon in Amsterdam en Leiden studeren? Klopt. Het verschil is alleen dat Maastricht de enige was die de studie helemaal Engelstalig aanbood.
Me and my languages
Hi! My name is Lotte, I’m a 20 year old Dutch bachelor student here at the university of Maastricht. I’ve lived my whole life in the Netherlands and spend most of my life in Voorschoten, a village next to Leiden in the west of the Netherlands. I have always been fascinated by languages and I always want to learn more and more of them.