He is not dumb . Sadly for you , he was actually thinking correctly , and trying to make sense about the resources available . Still if he was not correct , his attitude was totally about trying to help you . This rude attitude from you is simply not acceptable . <| sep |> For things like foreign languages eventually you stop studying the language itself because you ' ve learned it already , and instead study the country of origin more closely and its culturepeoplehistory , etc all while speaking and refining your skills in the target language of course . Your thesis might be about the mental health of the native speakers or any other topic like that relating to the countrySo by new it might be like a new idea or theory about how the country operates or how some other thing shaped its development . But I get what you ' re saying , it ' s not like PhD students in foreign languages just make up new Spanish to write about