“The Progression of Interests” In my late childhood, probably approximately eight to ten years of age, I discovered a long lasting and somewhat all consuming passion of mine: the Ancient World (Particularly Ancient Rome and Greece). History class up to that point was nothing special, not remarkably interesting nor especially boring. One day in the retelling of Roman history, something clicked, or moved into place. The vast world of war, battles, politics, pagan religion, ancient language, art, culture, architecture, stratagems, and tactics unfolded before my very eyes. Unfurling from the pages, battles came to life. Siege towers thundered as they rolled towards walls, crackling as handfuls of them were set alight by defenders. War cries filled …show more content…
One example of difficulty is the fact that English has approximately eleven vowels, yet only five letters corresponding to vowels. This leaves many letters to mean several different vowels, or even diphthongs with a single letter. For instance, the word “sit” /sɪt/ is much different from the word “mine” /maɪn/ yet both contain the same vowel letter. However, in Spanish the word “no” /no/ and the word “lo” /lo/ contain the same vowel and the same letter for that vowel. This deviance from being phonetic stems from the Norman conquering of England by William the Conqueror. He mixed in French spelling conventions with no regard of English pronunciation and, as a result, created the abomination of orthography that is English today.
Now, with an interest firmly at heart I have looked into my future, thinking about how to incorporate my love of languages into whatever I plan to pursue as a career. My mother insists to only minor in various languages and to major in something “useful like engineering.” I have yet to research the various types of engineering, but I am rather certain that searching in that field will be in vain. As I planned to try to make a career out of something I enjoy doing; after all, I will be doing it for a long