"The first year was really difficult. Most of my friends admitted at one point to crying in the first week because of the intensity. I was almost told at one point that I might want to reconsider and drop out."

“大一是最最艰难的，我身边大多数朋友都曾表示，由于学习强度太，第一周都掉眼泪了。甚至有人曾经劝我重新考虑，要不要放弃。”

Liberty Timewell, who graduated in Chinese from Cambridge University in 2017, spent at least eight hours a day studying during her degree, which increased to 18 hours a day at times during her finals.

利伯蒂·泰姆韦尔是剑桥大学中文系2017级毕业生，她曾经每天至少要花8小时学中文，每天学20个汉字，而学期末有时一天的学习时间能达到18小时。

So are the evenings in spent learning characters while your friends are at the student bar really worth it? Despite the ups and downs of their degrees, the two graduates think so.

当你在熬夜学汉字时，你的朋友们却在学生酒吧，你觉得这样真的值得？尽管在求学之路上经历各种曲折，但这两位毕业生都认为，那些辛苦是值得的。

They each use Chinese in their chosen careers, and would not be in the jobs they do now without their knowledge of the language.

他们在选择职业时都用到了中文，并且凭借相关知识找到了各自心仪的工作。

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