Linguistics is relevant to language teaching and learning, and to a wide range of professions. If you are learning a language, linguistics adds an extra dimension to your studies and broadens your outlook on language. It also goes together well with Psychology and Sociology. To study linguistics you don't have to have previous knowledge of nay language other than English. In first year, the main language studied is English but we also draw on Aboriginal, Asian, European, and Pacific languages.
People tend to take language for granted.
Though it's a fundamental part of all our lives, few of us know much about it. Linguistics is the scientific study of language. It deals with all these questions and many more. Linguistics can be divided into two broad areas. One is the analytical and systematic study of speech sounds, words, sentences and meaning.