Hello, my name is Ven, I'm from Malaysia 
and I'm studying English Language and Linguistics as well as Japanese.
I'm a third year student.
I chose to study at York St John because, 
well as an international student it's costly to study overseas and I wanted to study in the UK 
and York St John has scholarships for international students which is not really that common in a lot of
universities in the UK.
As well as it's a really small uni, you've got lots of contact time with the lecturers
and it was really helpful getting feedback from the lecturers,
being able to communicate well with them.
It really helped me out especially in first year because in first year you don't really know what to do. 
I decided to do Japanese first because
I always had an interest in Japanese, the Japanese language and culture.
I also heard that I could spend one year abroad in Japan.
And for linguistics it was because
I always loved words and languages and I really
wanted to learn more about the process and
just basically about what its about and things
like that.
Out of all my modules I enjoy languages carousel for example,
 because that was my first year and first semester module
and I basically got to get a taster for different languages I've never tried before.
I know some english, obviously I know some Asian languages but european languages were new to me.
So I did French, Italian and British Sign Language, which was really eye opening.
I'm a member of the languages society.
It's been really good as well because there are many different people from different countries
and you kind of get exposed to all of these, not just their language but also their culture and their ways of thinking
So for someone like me who has always been interested in languages it was a really good society to be in.
 And York itself I think is a really great city to be in because not many cities are as peaceful
in general York is a place where I feel really relaxed
 so I think it's just a really good city if you want to further
your studies in it it's really good.
 As an international student, I'm actually already international,
 but having the opportunity to go to different countries just for my degree has been really rewarding
 so I am really thankful for that.
