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.

This is an Asian market that I found while walking my parents around and outside campus, it is on 11th Ave. The sign reads “Ya Zhou Long” and on the top in English it simply says “Eugene Asian Market”. When deciding where to find characters in Eugene, an Asian market immediately came to mind, as in one of our first lectures, the fact that there are many Asian markets in Eugene came up, from there I found the closest one to me which I had already known about since as stated before, I had walked passed it with my parents.