Intro

I love words. I love the fact that every single word has a specific connotation and denotation, and changing a single word in a sentence can communicate a very different and unique idea.

I'm especially interested in this course because I grew up in a house filled with a variety of languages. My first language was Spanish, and since then, I've learned English, Hebrew, French, and some Italian. Although I feel most comfortable speaking Spanish, I've found that there are certain expressions, ideas, emotions that I have to express in the other languages; there's a certain gap in translation that occurs because each language is so different. It's literally impossible to ever translate a phrase perfectly from one language to another; each language is supplemented with the flavor of its culture, encompassing so much more than dictionary definitions. I'm fascinated by this richness of language!