Video transcript: Students without Borders

Transcript for the Students without Borders video embedded on the Students without Borders language course page.

[Text appears on screen that reads ‘Nina is a second year medical student. She took a Students without Borders course in Spanish. Here’s what she had to say about it’].

[Nina appears on the screen sitting outside the Great Hall]

Nina: I studied Spanish at GCSE and A-level and I really wanted to carry it on, so I was really excited to hear about the Students without Borders course. 
I think communication is such an important skill, especially in a different language because it means you can speak to many more people. For example, you could speak to patients who have Spanish as their first language. 

You could do Spanish abroad on your elective and it means that you could work abroad in the future. 

One of the girls who was in my group was a third-year nursing student and she finished her third year abroad in Spain. That meant that she found this course really really helpful for her because it gave her more confidence with the language. 

The good thing about this course is that you learn Spanish but in a medical context, so everything you learn is really relevant to what you've learned in medical school, and it means that you'd be able to go abroad in the future and maybe practice in a hospital and have the confidence to speak in Spanish.

I think the teaching is really good. It's such a nice, relaxed learning environment and I would really encourage anyone who has the opportunity to do it to take this opportunity.

My confidence has definitely improved with Spanish. When I finished Spanish A-level, I was worried that I could forget a lot of words (and I think I did when I first started University) but now I feel like it's all come back and it’s opened my eyes to more opportunities in the future to perhaps work or study abroad.

It was actually really nice to meet new people as well, especially in different year groups and on different courses, for example, I’m a Medical student but another girl was a Nursing student.

I met a girl in the year below as well, so you definitely make more friends and it's just something nice to do separate to the Medicine course, as Medicine is quite intense, so it's nice to have a breather and a break and just do something different.

[Text appears on screen that reads ‘Salma and Elijah are first year Medical students. They took a Students without Borders course in French. Here’s what they had to say about it’].

[Elijah appears on screen sitting outside the Great Hall]

Elijah: I'd recommend the course anyone who wants to practice their language skills for professional reasons or personal reasons. 

For me, personally, I wanted to learn French so I can speak French in other countries but also, professionally, I have a lot of patients from different countries. Even within the UK, or if you're looking to study or work abroad, it’s useful to have a language.

[Salma appears on screen sitting outside the Great Hall]

Salma: I would recommend the course to anyone who wants to maintain or improve their French proficiency. For me, it was an extracurricular activity that would benefit me and also allow me to develop my interest.

[Elijah appears on screen sitting outside the Great Hall]

Elijah: The main thing I took from it was just being confident in speaking a language that means that, whenever I am in a professional environment, I can discuss certain things with other professionals. 

But also on a personal level, we have to kind of be able to articulate things and have a conversation with people, even in an unprofessional situation, so I think it really helps your confidence to just be able to use the language skills you might have learnt at school, outside of the classroom.
[Salma appears on screen sitting outside the Great Hall]

Salma: It's been a long time since I've done French so it was a great opportunity to improve and also practice speaking and listening, which I feel can be applied to an actual French context.

This course gave me the confidence and the skills to be able to listen and understand people that are speaking in French and be able to communicate with people proficiently. It does it give you those extra skills that you wouldn't be able to acquire otherwise. 

I'd say for people to go for it and the course is what you make of it.

[Text appears on screen that reads ‘Interested? Go to the Students without Borders page to find out more’].