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346. Psychology of Language. (3-0). Credit 3. Examines theories of how language is acquired, comprehended, produced, stored and used in normal and brain-impaired individuals. Prerequisites: PSYC 107; junior or senior classification.
...I can audit it at least. HOT DAMN. I'M SO TAKING THAT CLASS NEXT SEMESTER *_______* God that's, like, SO INTERESTING TO ME. Right now it conflicts with a government class I have to take, but next semester I've got, like, two classes that I HAVE to take, and nothing else.
I've been thinking lately, I like languages and all, but you can't just learn a language and have that be your job, knowing that language (unless you're a translator, and while I like that, I don't think I'd want that to be my job).
But the reason that I devote so much of my time to languages, my own and others, is because they interest me. What I find most fascinating is HOW people speak, what processes their brain goes through to form words, how different languages WORK, why grammar is grammatical--in short, the psychological side of linguistics, I've realized. So I NEED to take this class. I need to see if, well, if it'd work. Could I stand that side of science? Being able to finally use science and blend it with linguistics and Japanese?
Damn, I hope so ♥ Because I could stand, I think, going to Japan for a year, two, loving it, and continuing on to get a masters or something working towards this kind of psychological analysis of language, applying it to Japanese, working in Japanese linguistics and English linguistics and swedljuhdgiuhdgiurt I WANT TO BE GRADUATED NOW THANKS.
*sigh* I'm gonna go lie down for a while XD;;;;
346. Psychology of Language. (3-0). Credit 3. Examines theories of how language is acquired, comprehended, produced, stored and used in normal and brain-impaired individuals. Prerequisites: PSYC 107; junior or senior classification.
...I can audit it at least. HOT DAMN. I'M SO TAKING THAT CLASS NEXT SEMESTER *_______* God that's, like, SO INTERESTING TO ME. Right now it conflicts with a government class I have to take, but next semester I've got, like, two classes that I HAVE to take, and nothing else.
I've been thinking lately, I like languages and all, but you can't just learn a language and have that be your job, knowing that language (unless you're a translator, and while I like that, I don't think I'd want that to be my job).
But the reason that I devote so much of my time to languages, my own and others, is because they interest me. What I find most fascinating is HOW people speak, what processes their brain goes through to form words, how different languages WORK, why grammar is grammatical--in short, the psychological side of linguistics, I've realized. So I NEED to take this class. I need to see if, well, if it'd work. Could I stand that side of science? Being able to finally use science and blend it with linguistics and Japanese?
Damn, I hope so ♥ Because I could stand, I think, going to Japan for a year, two, loving it, and continuing on to get a masters or something working towards this kind of psychological analysis of language, applying it to Japanese, working in Japanese linguistics and English linguistics and swedljuhdgiuhdgiurt I WANT TO BE GRADUATED NOW THANKS.
*sigh* I'm gonna go lie down for a while XD;;;;
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Date: 2006-08-21 08:40 pm (UTC)NGVKDMSFLK AMEN. Sorry, but wow, I feel the exact same way. Languages interest me SO much; it's like the last thing I want to learn them for is a career, but simply for
an insane amount ofgeneral curiosity (but finding a good career that incorporates knowing language is wonderful too ♥). But yeah, I love hearing new languages and learning new cultures and getting to know how the many people of the world live *________* It's just really fascinating to me. The first language I really want to learn right now is Japanese, but I definitely don't want to stop there. I think one of my major goals in life is to learn as many languages as I can/am interested in and, at the end of my life, travel the world and try to use each of those languages at least once. ☆_☆ [/journal entry]XD; *cough* Sorry for the long-winded comment, but I just felt that I completely agreed with you on that ^^;
I hope you get into that class though :D It sounds really interesting to me too.
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Date: 2006-08-21 10:31 pm (UTC)Being able to have the job that you've always dreamed of seems to be a rarity in today's world.
がんばって！！！
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PS - see you in Japan one day! definitely!
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Date: 2006-08-21 10:36 pm (UTC)Best of luck with it!
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Date: 2006-08-22 10:59 pm (UTC)I've always been fascinated by the Psychology behind languages too. On one hand, it's kind of depressing because I want to think that humankind thinks alike on a basic level so we can all come together as one people some day. But learning a language definitely might affect the way you think, which is another reason why I envy people who learn English and their parents' native language or some other foreign language when they're young.