Hi, my name is Richard Abend and I teach
linguistics for Monterey Peninsula
College - MPC.
Our college offers about nine 
different linguistics classes
which is really amazing.
Linguistics is an important field and we
can see that because many AA degrees
have required or elective courses in
linguistics, the same is true for BA degrees
teaching certificates in California, very
many of them also require linguistics
classes -- at least one.
In my opinion, I think
linguistics is important
because it, number one is such a
wide area in it has something for
everybody. If you're interested in 
life sciences for example
then you can ... perhaps you want to learn
about how the body produces sounds and
perceives sounds. If you're interested in social sciences,
then linguistics has a lot 
to offer in to explain
the interaction between 
language society and culture.
And also, perhaps the most important thing
about linguistics is it really explains
to us how language works
the interesting thing is
that we use language
to achieve most of our goals in life.
So it makes sense to me
if you take a linguistics class and you
learn a little bit more about language,
you also become a better language user - 
which means that you should become a
little bit more successful 
in your life as well.
