The once popular professional "small language" is becoming a sinkhole. Why did this change happen?

Why do so many students choose liberal arts? Because they really don't understand science. Among the liberal arts majors, one once popular major has now become a Tiankeng major, and this liberal arts major is a small language.

In 2022, in Henan, a big province of college entrance examination, the lowest admission ranking of science in Shanghai International Studies University dropped to more than 50,000. The lowest admission ranking of science in Guangdong University of Foreign Studies dropped to more than 70,000 in Henan.

Japanese, French, Russian and Spanish majors in Sichuan University, foreign languages and literature majors in Chongqing University and Sun Yat-sen University, and Korean and Arabic majors in Beijing Foreign Studies University have also dropped significantly. Why do small languages become sinkholes? Why is this happening? Let's analyze it from different angles.

First: the study pressure is great.

College students majoring in small languages are under great pressure after class, so it is difficult to fail the final exam. The schoolwork is heavy, and some senior three students have to attend eight classes a week, so it is difficult to graduate. Some colleges and universities require CET-4 to graduate. Many people think that after learning a small language, the English level will plummet, because when a language is our major class, most of the time we are studying the relevant knowledge of the course, while English as a minor class will only have little time to study. However, if you want to learn small languages and English well at the same time, the academic pressure will be great, and it is really difficult to persist without good perseverance.

Some people choose to minor in language in order to find a better job in the future, but in fact, in real life, English is still the mainstream language in the world, so while minoring in language as a living skill, we should continue to learn English. This will greatly increase the study pressure.

Second, employment is difficult.

According to statistics, in 2022, the employment of college students majoring in small languages was mostly in civil operation or customer service positions, accounting for 13.4%, the employment in teaching and training industry could reach 12.6%, the employment in sales positions was1.9%, and the employment in personnel, administration and legal affairs was 9.3%.

So, everyone ran away In 985, 2 1 1 colleges and universities, 52% of ethnic minority students chose to take postgraduate courses, with a cross-disciplinary ratio as high as 65.45438+0%. 985,211institutions are all like this, not to mention ordinary universities.

Third: more investment and less return.

There is still a gap between most people's English and native speakers, not to mention learning a new language from scratch and mastering it quickly from scratch requires great efforts. So other people's college majors may be studying, reading papers, engaging in projects, participating in competitions, doing cases, doing experiments and doing projects; It will soon give people a kind of hello major, and what you do is so advanced, as if professional barriers will be established soon. Students majoring in small languages, freshmen and sophomores, basically recite texts, recite words, do exercises, make up dialogues and do pre.

Moreover, students majoring in minority languages actually spend a lot of time studying, because language learning really needs a lot of practice, and most majors continue to push forward and learn at the level of high school to establish their own thinking in a certain field. Majoring in minor languages is a retrogressive process. As soon as you go to college, you will have the level of going back to kindergarten, starting with learning to speak, how to introduce yourself, how to keep a diary, how to introduce your hometown and how to study. There will be a big gap between the depth of thinking and the time spent in other majors.

But when I graduated, I felt that I knew nothing except the foreign language itself. I want to minor, but my ability is not good. It is important to learn well first and learn more knowledge, but it is also important to ensure the GPA of this major, especially for students who want to continue their studies. There may be conflicts in student work and school curriculum arrangement, so you have to face many choices.

Today, I analyzed the transformation of minority languages from the above three points. I hope that when you choose a small language, you should also carefully consider choosing the path that suits you.