Notes

• Written
  language that manages to survive and allows us to understand what
  civilizations thousands of years old once thought. Spoken language is
  faster.
• Scripts are a written system of symbols
  • single
    complex symbols such as cuneiform and hieroglyphs, require learning the
    sophisticated methods used to create them and thousands of unique
    symbols can exist in the language. 
  • an alphabet, a relatively
    small set of symbols organized into groupings called 'words', with each
    word having a different meaning

Alphabets

• The
  earliest known alphabet is known as the Phoenician Alphabet. This
  alphabet, dating back to at least 1050 B.C., contains ancient forms of
  most of the letters that we use today.The important thing to understand
  is that we still use the same alphabet developed three millennia ago
  with relatively minimal changes.

Incantations

• Incantations
  are almost always one or two words long. Most incantations we will
  learn about can be traced back to a Latin. Get a syllable out of place
  and you can completely change the way you are shaping the magic. It is essential that
  you look up the pronunciation for any incantation you are unfamiliar
  with or listen very carefully when your professors talk about one in
  class.

The Fire-Making Charm