This week so far has been a strange week:

Monday

Monday was my birthday, I was a whole 22 years old!! I know the jokes about getting old are to come. I had a really nice day actually.

We started off by getting to Warwick a little late due to a stop off for birthday breakfast (thanks Dan). Then we had to sit through one of the most boring lectures ever, that sounds really horrid and I don't mean for it to sound that way, the lady was lovely but it was all stuff to do with study skills that we had been doing for the past couple of weeks so we had recently gone through it and to sit through another hour of it was erm... tedious to say the least. I'm not going to mention who fell asleep, you know who you are...

The rest of  the day was great, the queues trying to get our Warwick cards were ridiculous, I think I am going to go along in the next couple of weeks to get my card as I wasn't waiting around for 2 hours.

There was so much information to take in and gladly we had Lisa with us so she knew her way around the campus.

After Warwick I got back home and had a lovely meal with the family and just relaxed, good day.

Wednesday

On Wednesday we were discussing what makes language and does it need to be grammatical to be a language? We looked at the village in Turkey called Kuskoy (translates as bird village).

Below is an example:



I find this type of language very interesting, I do believe this is a language as it can be directly translated from the Turkish.

We did some group work in this lesson and the team leaders had to wear very attractive hats!! I kid you not...

After this we went through different theorists and their views on language. I personally feel that communication is innate and language is learnt.

It is very interesting in what different theorists views on these issues.

I am going to try and upload my notes, I don't know if they would be useful for anyone.

Anyway... I'm gonna go, I've got some baking to do. Has anyone got any preferences for cakes for tomorrows lesson with Lin?? If so please let me know and I will see what I can do.

Byeee xx