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>> Laura?

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>> I actually when I first
started learning Spanish,

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it was for a language
requirement

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for my bachelor's degree.

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>> Absolutely.

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>> And when got -- when
I met that requirement,

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they passed out this note in
class very cleverly that said,

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"Just take three more
classes, and you have a minor."

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So I did that, and through
those basic classes,

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I just really liked the
language and went from there.

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>>Yes, yes ma'am.

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>> I don't know if it's
interesting or not,

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but I have one student.

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He's in the philosophy
department, and he wants

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to read all the texts, the
German texts, in German.

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But what's interesting about
his is that he's just lazy,

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and when I talk to him,
he acknowledged that.

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He knows that he needs
to put in more work.

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He doesn't turn in
homework, and, you know.

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It would be really good
when he does his work,

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he's right on top of things.

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He has this motivation.

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>>We were talking about that

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in our department
over the last days.

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They were always
saying that a lot

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of student could take German,
because they wanted to go

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into brewery and brew beer.

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And I said, "No, I had never
met a student like that."

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But then I had a student,
"Oh, I want to go to Munich,

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and I want to work for
Paulaner and brew beer."

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Okay.

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>>Judith?

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>> Well, in Germany we have
to have English in school,

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so they force you to take it.

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And I failed that class.

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I couldn't speak English at
all, and I had to retake it,

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and I wasn't motivated at all

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because I didn't
see a purpose in it.

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>> Yea.

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>> I went to engineering
and all that.

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And then my parents moved to
the US, and I was kind of forced

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to learn the language then

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and really speak it
when I visited them.