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Undergrads share origin stories of their love of linguistics

December 05, 2025

鈥淲hat I love about Linguistics is that language is such a human thing. And what Linguistics does is instead of enforcing or prescribing rules for how people should speak, it describes and seeks to understand how languages evolve and develop and how they work.鈥 
鈥&苍产蝉辫;厂迟耻诲别苍迟&苍产蝉辫;辞蹿 LING 220: Introduction to Linguistics

Watch video of our undergraduate students sharing experiences of what sparked their fascination with linguistics: