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The road to deciding on a phd program was hard and tortuous. I finally decided to do linguistics and I am super excited about it. I have a non-ling BA and a MA in Spanish with coursework in Spanish general linguistics and applied. I'm interested in language preservation, dialectology/language contact and computational ling and voice recognition (for developing lang teaching software). I was out of the academic setting for 3 years (working as an administrator for the state) but recently started taking undergrad ling courses to make up for my non-ling BA. Questions: -For computational ling, what level of computer science knowledge is expected/preferred for phd programs? -With zero computer science background, are my computational ling dreams unrealistic? -What computer courses would better prepare me? I don't want to waste valuable time. Thanks.