If you go the languages route, you would be taking a general arts degree.  It's pretty flexible.  Your first year you would take a variety of courses anyway, then you get a little more specialized when you choose your major.  You can go with languages, or use them to support a major in psychology, sociology, English, French, Spanish, communications......

If you go the art route, the jobs are more competitive, and quite often people don't end up in a career in their chosen field. If you are determined, and good at what you do, go for it.  You can go to a university and study fine arts, or go to a crafts college or community college and study graphic arts, photography, design etc.  Graphic arts is in high demand, and I know a lot of graphic artists who love what they do.

Thanks giggley and griselda, I've just had a look on UCAS and ordered a few prospectus's so I guess it's a start. I can definatly do French and Spanish and other language related degrees combined with History of Art, which sounds really interesting and has occasional practical elements.

But at one place I can do either French or Spanish with Fine Art. So theres a lot of choices to be made.

Unfortunatly I've realised too late that the most common job people go into after these sorts of degrees is teaching, or using a language occasionally in the office, so I'm very confused because it's really not what I wanted from doing two languages.

I don't know if anyone else wrote this, becuase I'm too lazy to read it all. haha

BUT why not integrate them both?!

Do you like people/kids?

Why not being an art teacher in a foriegn country using one (or more) of the languages you are studying!?!

I think that's an awsome idea.  You love them both, so do them both.

I'm going to be an art teacher I think so I've been looking at colleges and universities for things like that, but I'm sure you could find a college that allows you to create your own major, just call around to colleges that look good to you!

Good LUCK!

I feel like the first part of my reply was a commercial. "Do you like working out! Then buy...blah blah blah"

Its the coffee talking again.

Well I've applied now to a modern languages degree, I'll be continuing french and spanish and starting italian from scratch. Language graduates are in demand in all sectors so I feel like I've made a good choice.

Yes in England you study between 3 and 5 A-Levels when you're 17/18, you then go to uni and specialise even further, but you can create your own degrees, like psycology and french for example and graduate in both subjects. It sounds rather complex that you study everything in college in America, surely you don't get very specialised in your subject?

It depends on the school, of course, but you really don't have to take that much outside of your chosen major- just a few liberal arts and language courses.  I really welcomed any non-science classes for a change, because the science just consumes you.

By the end, you're pretty darn specialized, depending on how you scheduled things.  I wasn't applying for a Biology program, so I took a little bit of everything in the Bio department.  My friend who was applying for a PhD in biochem made sure to specialize in those kinds of classes.  A friend who is getting her PhD in Marine sciences did the same.

They give you a fair bit of freedom, really.  College here is what you make of it.

If it's anything like our colleges, 4 classes can be pretty damn difficult.  I actually only took 3 classes for a couple of semesters (I was struggling a bit and had to drop a class after the add period ended).

I actually miss college in some ways.  I'm taking 5 classes now, but in grad school, they decide my schedule for me.  I don't get electives until my final semester, and I only have  a choice of 3 different ones.  I miss being able to randomly take a history or religion class just because it sounds interesting.

My head of year person was talking to me about doing 5 a levels and I was thinking about it but I'm ridiculously unhardworking and it'll be safer just to take 4. I want to take german, french, history and either english lit or maths.
Some sixth forms offer the IB (international bac) but i don't know of any that do where I live. My cousins and friends did really well at their bacs, so my parents are starting to say stuff like, "so, we're really going to try very hard next year, aren't we?".

Can you really start italian at uni from scratch! That must be amazing! I'd love that =D My uncle and aunt live in Italy and their daughter is growing up with both French and Italian, just imagine  She's so cute, she says "si" all the time instead of "oui". Haha. Although I suppose Spanish would be easier. My mum's fluent in Spanish so she could help me. x]
I am really really looking forward to dropping english language, PE, sciences...although i know i'll instantly forget everything to do with them.

Most people at my sixth form did 4 AS and 3 A Levels. I remember them saying "Oh hahaha you can do four but you'd have no life!"

I did History, Geog, English Lang/Lit and Psychology, and a "Citizenship" AS Level...... that was a lot of work together, so 5 full "proper" A Levels does seem a lot (especially the ones you have chosen, Elise!). But, the beauty of modules is that by my final exams I was so confident in getting straight As (for Geog, say needed 30/110) that I hardly had to revise for some. So you can space it out (working consistently hard, esp in first year) and it won't be too hard.

Italian is a beautiful language.... but I am crap at languages. I didn't go to Warwick because it would mean learning languages (Italian specifically, I seem to remember)

I loved studying Italian when I was in High School.  It's one of my bigger regrets that I had to drop it when I got to college and I've all but lost it at this point in time...

You're very fortunate to be able to study so many different languages.

Mmmmmm. I did not like Psychology at all (can't remember examination board. Edexcel?!) It was not what I thought it would be.

Yes! Do History! What kind would you do? I did Tudor. Most people at my sixth form did Modern.

PS are you at Oaklands atm? I was doing sculpture there...

^ Languages look great on your personal statement, and you're more employable after graduation with a langauge, of course I've just taken it to an extreme

We're a language college but tbh we're gonna loose that title because for GCSE the school is just focusing on French rather than French, German and Spanish like they did in my time (aka 2 years ago). They used to have loads of options for Chinese, Italian etc. but they stopped doing it before I had the chance to take part. Really annoying, it's all about league tables and teaching to the exam nowadays rather than learning the actual subject -___- /rant.

I think for the current history A-Level you do a lot about Russia, the revolution, post soviet russia etc and I believe also the american indians? I don't know if that changes from school to school but I've always found Russia so interesting!

Aha. I see. A CoE school. How heavy is it?!