Best Major for Someone who wants to be fluent in many languages?

College Majors
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<p>Hi I really want to master a bunch of languages in college, preferably Chinese (I am Chinese), Japanese, and French, and i will most likely be studying abroad a few times.</p>

<p>Would linguistics be the best major for someone like me who just wants to become fluent in languages?</p>

<p>I'm 99 % sure I'm going into medicine so I'm not worried about career prospects. </p>

<p>Also, are there any specific colleges that meet my needs? I've been looking at Dartmouth.</p>

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<p>Linguistics would probably be the major you’re looking for at some schools. At other schools you might best be suited by the Foreign Languages major-- this major typically allows students to study on 2- or 3-language tracks. My alma mater, Scripps College in the Claremont Colleges consortium, offers this kind of major, but I also know that Lewis & Clark College in Portland offers this type of major as well.</p>

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<p>French is the only Romance language you mention.</p>

<p>But if you ever are interested in more Romanic languages I would look into majoring in Latin.</p>

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<p>Linguistcs is the study of language, not the same as aiming for spoken and written fluency. You’d need to pick a language or two and dig as deep as your schedule allows, working around pre-med requirements.</p>

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<p>Latin would be the most useful when it comes to helping you with medical concepts and terminology. I would say just take as many courses around pre-med as you can, just as lookingforward suggested.</p>