Whats the difference between BA Linguistics and BA European Languages?
Majoring in European Languages will usually mean doing major-level studies in two or more languages (French, Croatian, Portuguese, Swedish, etc.). The emphasis would be on learning these languages and understanding their literature and the cultures that produced them. Linguistics is the systematic study of how language functions, what it is, how it is stored in the brain, how it is perceived, structured, and how it changes over time. You would lean about sound systems (phonology) and learn to identify phonological rules within specific languages; you would learn about the many ways of structuring words and sentences in different kinds of languages, and to classify languages according to how they handle certain issues. You’d also learn about lanuage acquisition and some of the sociological/political issues surrounding language use. Linguists typically speak more than one language (some speak many), but studying Linguistics would *not* necessarily lead to fluency in any particular langua
