One of the biggest things that interested me this term was one of the most recent things we talked about, that being the differences in how we think based on the language we speak. This class has probably been my favorite of this term do to the topics we’ve brought up, the involvement of the entire class instead of just sitting there staring at a slideshow blankly taking notes, and although the readings weren’t always that exciting to read, the classes always brought up the topics we learned about in interesting ways with new perspectives and ways of thinking. In this course I mostly learned through the classes themselves instead of the readings that we had, I found the lectures much more interesting than the articles we’d read. The field of linguistics was never really on my radar until this class, it opened my eyes up to how interesting languages can really be, from the alphabets in Japanese, to the way the characters mimic the shape of your mouth in Korean, to the subtle differences in tones in Chinese.