Final Post

[Laura Major]

I'd say that this class has shown me how to view a language on a more linguistic level rather than just studying a language from scratch. I got to see how the language is not just a language but rather part of a culture. I have studied Spanish before but really you just learn how to speak it and you never really know where it came from or why. I got to see how I learned best from learning a language and I saw that I really need a book to look off of to follow. I can be self directed but I definitely need a step by step guide to show me where to start and to refer back to. I found with Farsi it was really difficult to find sources because not many people speak it. It was especially hard to find Farsi vocabulary for my cultural project because a lot of the words I found were transcriptions and most of the Farsi-English dictionaries online required Farsi script so I could never really look up anything that I found in Farsi and translate it into English. Overall I enjoyed the course as it showed me the hidden characteristics of a language behind the language itself.