week 9 write 200+ words about one of your other classes.

 I'm taking the class "an introduction to language"  This is one of my major subjects, I feel pretty hard to learn this though, sometimes it is interesting and makes me have achievements when I understand the contents of the book.
 The hardest chapter was "Semantic" which studies meaning of language. Especially, the part of "idioms" was very confusing. For instance, there were a paragraph "In many places such as Times Square in New York, a ball is dropped at midnight on New Year's Eve. Now, if the person in charge doesn't drop the ball, then he has "dropped the ball. And if that person does indeed drop the ball, then he has not "dropped the ball. Right?"
   When I first read this, I just thought " What is this..". I really no had idea of it and started to find the meaning of "drop the ball". I found that it means "spoil something", still confused about the paragraph. What I don't get it still is  " Why the person is supposed to drop the ball on Christmas?"And why, if (s)he doesn't drop the ball, (s)he has spoiled this?. This paragraph sounds very weird to me but I know this is because of cultural and linguistic difference.

 The second hard one was "Syntax" which studies structures of language. It looked like very complex tree and I thought why should I learn such a thing and I will never get it. However, I started to concentrate on reading the part calmly and it was not harder than I thought.

 I realized feeling of achivements is very awesome when studying the subject, although the way of getting to them is very painful.