Questions tagged [conlang-learning]
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What is a good way for a speaker of English to get started learning Toki Pona?
I am interested in learning Toki Pona. As a speaker of Toki Pona and English, what would be a good learning path for someone that speaks primarily English and has a moderate amount of knowledge about ...
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If there was a group of perfect-pitched alien, who spoke in whistles, would humans without perfect pitch be able to learn that language of whistles?
Essentially, without perfect pitch, could someone learn a language that requires you to have the pitch perfect.
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Will I be able to read texts written in all Romance languages simply by learning Interlingua?
Interlingua's official site claims that speakers of all Romance languages will immediately understand the language on paper when first exposed to it. Is this true? Can I really understand Spanish, ...
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Has anyone tried learning and speaking Kesh?
The book "Always Coming Home" by Ursula K Le Guin is an anthropological account of the Kesh, a people that "might be going to have lived" in future California. It includes short ...
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Has the Asshai'i language ever been created?
I heard that David Peterson thought about creating the Asshai'i language.
Did that ever happen? Has the Asshai'i language ever been actually created?
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Are there any sites you can use to develop an online course for your own conlang?
Creating a conlang is usually only half (or less than half!) of the necessary effort: someone has to be able to learn it, unless you want to keep it as your own private secret code.
I use Duolingo to ...
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Structure only conlang? Nouns?
Are there examples of conlangs that are used by applying their structure such as grammar, sentence structure, intonation, means of combining words, etc… with other features of a given language or ...
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What features make a language easier to learn for people learning it as a second language?
This question is different than the previous one titled “Which features make a language easier to learn?” in that I'm not interested in making it easy for L1 learners. For them learning the language ...
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Are there convincing examples that auxiliary constructed languages are in fact easier to learn?
Auxiliary constructed languages are meant to be learnt faster than natural languages.
Are there convincing examples that auxiliary constructed languages are in fact easier to learn than natural ...
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Is there anyone that has a conlang as their first/only language?
It seems that people generally use constructed languages in very limited circumstances, or within small communities that speak the language. Thus it seems to me unlikely that one of these languages ...
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Teaching children constructed languages
Are there any modern accounts (either of personal experiences of individuals on this forum, or in general) of an individual creating their own language and teaching it to their child(ren)/family?
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Which features make a language easier to learn?
Which features make a language easier to learn for children learning a constructed language as L1? Are children learning a language with these features able to learn the language faster than a natural,...
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How do Romance-based naturalistic conlangs deal with the different principal parts of a verb?
The Latin verb has four principal parts (e.g., ducere, duco, duxi, ductum) that are sufficient and necessary to create all inflected forms and derived words from it. As far as I know, no naturalistic ...
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