Hello there. My name is Katie Gerfin and I hail from outside Chicago. I'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'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 "Tourist Italian" and barely-conversational French (although I haven'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.
