• Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 hours ago

    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.

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      7 hours ago

      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.

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      8 hours ago

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

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          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.