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[–] [email protected] 44 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

My daughter is about 2 years from graduating high school, and even before Trump came into office I was urging her to consider non-US colleges. Mostly because she wants to go into medicine and our healthcare system has been broken for much longer than I can remember. But also the rise of Fox News (and others) getting away with stating provable lies as fact, Joe Rogan, et al. showed that there has been an inflection point and the country is being led around by the dumbest of us.

She's fluent in Spanish, though jumping straight into a medical program would introduce a lot of new specialized words, and might be to much. We're starting to look into options though.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (2 children)

College introduces a lot of new words in general. It is what it's for, plus, she will be in pre-med. Go for the Spanish route. She will flourish. :) Spain is so lovely. I hope I can land something there next.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

Very true. If she's up for the challenge I really want her to do that. I'd love more reasons to go to Spain.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Ugh, Spain is amazing. I dream of that country.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Specially in smaller cities away of the big two.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Medical English is largely stripped-down Latin, I wonder how similar medical Spanish is

[–] [email protected] 9 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

The technical terms are very similar. The only issue would be the colloquial terms.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

We interact with people from numerous Spanish speaking countries as part of an intern program, and the one thing every new group says is how funny each other's slang sounds to the rest of the group. She might have a rough month or two, but then I think it would be fairly smooth after that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I mean English is sorta the science lingua franca so I imagine most of the technical words would be lone words if they showed up in a paper first.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

*loan words, as they were loaned to the language in question.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

I interpreted it as meaning lone words as in only a few here and there.