Linguistics at its best

My name is Ututjinda Kavendjaa and I am a second-year student, studying for a bachelor’s degree in English and linguistics at the Namibian University of Science and Technology (NUST). The reason I chose this course was because of the knowledge I would gain on literature and its facets, such as poetry, prose and drama.

This course has so far enabled me to expand my capacity for the science of aesthetics and in addition fuelled my keen interest to delve into the communications industry through modules based on rhetoric and studying the intercultural communicatory aspects of human societies.

Challenges that I have faced include the struggle to continue studying when facing straining mental environments fostered in the aspects of my educational career that have to do with the phonetic, semantic, morphological and syntactic part of this study. This encompasses a more critical study of the English language, its innermost parts like sound pronunciations and word building, the amalgamation of this language, how it works in given societies, its history, its meaning, and its respective structures. Ultimately, proving to myself that it can be done is what has motivated me to continue studying for this degree.

I would recommend this course to any aspiring student who has a heart that understands the vitality of learning how people communicate with one another and what it means to opine oneself appropriately. In addition to this, this study allows one to romanticise not only the study of language, but the arts that have contributed to it.