-Hello! I’m Pollyanna
I’m a second year in the Department of
 Language and Linguistic Science
-Hi, I’m Holly. I’m also a second year
in the Department of Language and Linguistics
-And we’re going to look at these questions
and see if we can answer any of them
about York and the course
What made you choose to study Language and
Linguistics at York?
Do you want to go first?
-I’d say one because it was ranked really
high as a University for this course
and two, I came on an Open Day and
they made it sound really interesting
just the different subjects
The staff all seemed really friendly, it just
seemed like a good course
What do other people think you do in your
subject?
And what do you actually do?
Everybody always says ‘Is this what you
do?’ when they read out funny little things
Like, my friend sent me a video of
 basically somebody just making noises
and she said ‘this is what you do, right?’
and I was like ‘uhh, no’
-Or like, when you go
‘Ahh, you do linguistics! So how many languages
do you know?’
It’s not just about that!
You can study languages because it’s language
and linguistics
but you can just do linguistics
or you can just do languages
What have you enjoyed most 
about your course so far?
I know what I’d say but I know 
you’d completely utterly disagree
-Go on…
-I really like syntax!
-Yeah, I disagree
-There’s one module that you take if you
do any part of linguistics
I think you have to take it if you do
some of the languages as well, like a basis
it’s called Syntax, and it really is
from the start, a love or hate subject
But if you love it like, genuinely 
once you get it, it’s so satisfying!
-I never got it
-The thing is quite often
people split into the syntax side
and the phonetics side
there are people that like both, but quite
often it’s one or the other
I was more syntax, and I think you’re more
of a phonetics person
-Yeah definitely
All of the lecturers and even the
seminar tutors
they’re all really passionate about what
they do
and about their specific areas which is quite
motivational
If someone’s teaching you, you want them
to be passionate about it
Otherwise, you’re going to get bored, if
they’re bored
So they’re quite inspirational sometimes.
-Give one piece of advice to students who
are currently applying to University
-Look into the course details a lot
because I looked a quite a lot of linguistics
stuff
and ended up actually calling up loads of unis
and really annoying them!
There were very specific modules that I liked
the look of
that York did but nowhere else did it
So like psycholinguistics in third year, that
looks like it will be fun
And Law and Language, I don’t think anywhere
else does something like that
So just look at what you’re interested in
And if you don’t know what the title is,
just Google it!
‘What is Psycholinguistics?’
 It will pop up
-I’d say definitely take the time to research
your course
and go and visit the uni
And definitely think about what
you want to do in the future as well
I know for our course
 it’s quite open, I’d say
-Yeah, I really like that about linguistics!
