Choose a worthwhile degree which suits your needs
If it is linguistics let it be so but do consider future employability as:
a pilot,
waiting to be a pilot and
not as a pilot
Enjoy a PPL at your local school part-time or if like the idea of outside the UK by all means use your summer break to complete a PPL elsewehere.
Mad Jock speaks sense and is perhaps a bit cutting in his delivery but I echo his viewpoint