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Parse natural language (e.g. English) toward understanding it and responding. You will learn a great deal about ambiguity, the tradeoff between elegance/verbosity and the basics of information (sufficiency, necessity, ambiguity and excess). You'll also better appreciate the language itself, its basic patterns and the value and limits of grammar.

This will reveal the inevitability of verbal interfaces in computing devices (esp. mobile) and the difficulties therein.

It's then worth extending the effort another step, to introduce yourself to the statistical and numerical techniques used by natural language processing pros to keep up with the explosion in language in modern media: personal, social, and mass.