 Hello and welcome to the Linguistic Attitude Assessment on the Virtual Linguistics Campus. Is it possible for me to get a degree in linguistics? Is linguistics the right subject for me? And what are the central topics in linguistics? These and other aspects will be examined in a compilation of tests that check your suitability for studying linguistics. In the test on speech sounds you can show your intuitions about articulation and speculate where and how some selected consonants and vowels are produced in the mouth. The test words across languages makes use of the VLC Language Index and allows you to compare the pronunciation of so-called cognates, that is, of words with the same or a similar meaning across languages. We also test your grammatical knowledge. Yes, this is necessary for linguistics. You should be able to identify particular word classes and the main syntactic functions in some selected sentences. Furthermore, you can show your abilities to use deviant data. We want you to look at the English that Shakespeare used 400 years ago and we give you the chance to use a constructed rule system of a famous movie character. A particularly large field in linguistics is the study of meaning. In an associated test we give you the opportunity to examine the meaning of words and of word pairs, of simple utterances and of short dialogues and of the relationship between objects. In our final test you can become a linguistic field worker. We want you to explore a hopefully unknown language and we'll ask you some questions about this language. Great fun and a very important linguistic skill. For each of these six test scenarios you will be awarded a badge if 70% of your answers are correct. And once you have earned your six badges you will receive the aptitude statement which certifies that you are suitable for a linguistic degree program. So join us on the Virtual Linguistics Campus and find out whether linguistics is the right subject for you. Thanks for your attention and see you on the Virtual Linguistics Campus.