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3/ Now for a quick crash course in linguistics:

There are many branches, but for today, it’ll be helpful to understand the following in a bit more detail:

• Dialectology - the study of subsets of language (dialects) ex: Scouse English, Bavarian German

• Phonetics - the study of sounds of speech - cat vs chat, ik vs ich

• Sociolinguistics - the study of how social factors (i.e. age, class) impact speech

These, of course, are not official definitions of these terms!