http://www2.evergreen.edu/scienceoflanguage/blog/73 en http://www2.evergreen.edu/scienceoflanguage/introduction-of-me <p>Hello there.  My name is Katie Gerfin and I hail from outside Chicago.  I&#39;ve only taken one other class (at home at my community college) that has dealt with the subject of Linguistics.  I really enjoyed taking the class, so I figured I&#39;d revisit the area to see what else I could learn.  I love the idea of knowing how to speak many languages, although I only have &quot;Tourist Italian&quot; and barely-conversational French (although I haven&#39;t taken a French class in at least 5 years.)  I find it incredibly useful to study the way people use and learn language, not only because I believe it helps me to be a better communicator, but because I plan on becoming a teacher at some point in the future.</p> <p><a href="http://www2.evergreen.edu/scienceoflanguage/introduction-of-me">read more</a></p> http://www2.evergreen.edu/scienceoflanguage/introduction-of-me#comment Sat, 18 Oct 2008 19:04:45 -0700 Katie Gerfin 159 at http://www2.evergreen.edu/scienceoflanguage