A note about Feb. 5th

Last week we covered the subject of phonology. We started the class by deciephering a text written in the IPA format in small groups. This activity was challenging because we only recieved chunks of the text, but most of the class did pretty well. I thought all the the activities that we did were interesting (even the ones before class) because they were close to the same exact activities that I did in my 'Introduction to Linguistics' class when I was an undergrad. I think that taking a second linguistics class will only help me to better understand the English language because much of the information that I've forgotten will come back to me. We also addressed some of the problems and difficulties that students were having during our class, but I still don't think that everyone is on the same page. Being that this is an online class makes things even harder, but I hope that we'll all be able to learn a lot in this class.