Category Archives: conlang learning

The Most Viable Conlang Communities as of 2013

Posted on January 3, 2013 by matthewdeanmartin

Update: This is an article about con-paroles, languages that are used as languages. This caused a bit of confusion. If I missed any communities, just leave a comment, I know that some of the ones in Europe are active, but … Continue reading →

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Why learn a conlang, a dead language or otherwise rare language

Posted on July 7, 2011 by matthewdeanmartin

I just read this article, Why you Should Learn a Language and noticed that those are reasons to learn lingua francas, ie. languages spoken by a lot of native speakers or that are routinely used by people as a 2nd … Continue reading →

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Notes on vocabulary

Posted on July 5, 2011 by matthewdeanmartin

Refinements to Gold List Vocab List, Day 4. The gold list is a pen & paper vocabulary memorization technique. You write a list of words from a dictionary, read them aloud, repeat after an interval, mark off those that you … Continue reading →

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First, we memorize a heap of words-Paper and Pencil Techniques

Posted on July 2, 2011 by matthewdeanmartin

This is the first step of joining a conlang community and an early stage step in designing a language. You can’t really design a language unless you gain some proficiency in it. I’ve been putting off learning all the stems … Continue reading →

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