Ashley, 2nd year
'I applied to Oxford on a whim: when I finally received my acceptance letter, I was convinced there’d been a mistake! Like most students, I began Linguistics as a completely new subject. I knew I loved languages, but had no idea what the study of them would entail. What makes this course so absorbing is that it offers such scope for specialisation that you can explore anything from controversial new theories on first-language acquisition to translation of nonsense verse like The Jabberwocky.'
