Crash Course Linguistics
I am applying for a master’s programme in linguistics in a uni in HongKong and the written test is on the 19th of this month. Yesterday I got an email from the admission people informing me that the test is on linguistics, which for the love of the effing god I have never taken a single course on - the only linguistics course we have so far in the uni curriculum is in the second semester of the junior year, when I effing went to the effing UK to do the effing carefree alcohol-very-friendly study abroad.
So this is what I have decided. Instead of admitting defeat I am going to teach myself enough linguistics in two weeks to be decent on the written test. I already got A Very Brief Introduction to Linguistics on my Kindle, and another paperback Introduction to Language on its way from Amazon, and the MIT opencourseware Introduction to Linguistics, and a stack of UCLA print-outs on Introduction to linguistics that came out of a google search. I just hope I can digest as much of all these as possible.
If anybody who happens to be reading this has some knowledge about linguistics or any related tips. You’d certainly be very welcome. I am really grabbing at anything I can get right now.
God bless,
Peace.
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