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There no shame in never becoming fluent in your target language(s). Learning a new language even a little bit is great. Having the ability to communicate even a little bit is great. Learning about the culture(s) is great. You're doing great. Enjoy the experience.

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my solution to the protolang blues: only make a rough sketch, and only refer to that sketch when you feel it necessary.

real life linguists haven't worked out the entirety of most protolanguages, and even the ones that are pretty well worked out (basically just PIE) aren't as well understood as any extant language.

if you want some historical context for a word, or some grammar, tinker with the protolang and then work through your changes. it's only necessary to make a whole protolanguage when you plan on deriving a huge family, and if you are that's awesome but i have not and will never take on such a challenge.

i think i'll mess around a bit with the protolang and try to get somewhere. my initial idea was creating a small family, but i've decided i'm gonna focus just in one language for now.

anyways, thanks a lot for the comment/help!

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Inspired by/a companion to the poll @bimbogollum posted yesterday

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my biggest problem as a conlanger is that i find joy in evolving the language, but not in creating the proto-lang. i literally have zero full proto-langs cus i keep abandoning my projects from boredom or and unsatisfaction.

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wait, what? wdym I have 2 tumblr years????

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It's always sooooo funny when English people or Americans are like "Why are Irish names so hard to pronounce?? Why are these Welsh words so insane???" that's because it is a different language that you do not speak hope this helps ❤️

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That thing when US people get asked where they're from and they say their state, while basically everyone else says their country. Foreign people have a better knowledge of your states than you have of our countries.

Also, the US government is the only one to use only .gov, everywhere else needs to use .gov + another domain (like Brazil is .gov.br).

users from outside usa, do you find online spaces too americanised? (please add "see results" option OP <3)

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jesus fucking christ

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learned toki pona in preparation for my trip to ma pona.. where- where is it again?

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some loser: humans are innately selfish creatures

my psych book:

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Some are funny, but most make me very angry and it's very hard for me as a professional amateur linguistics fan ✨

Language is literally everywhere so it's so easy for people to have bad takes at it

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Language is literally everywhere so it's so easy for people to have bad takes at it

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Free Online Language Courses

Here is a masterpost of MOOCs (massive open online courses) that are available, archived, or starting soon. I think they will help those that like to learn with a teacher or with videos.  You can always check the audit course or no certificate option so that you can learn for free.

American Sign Language

ASL University

Sign Language Structure, Learning, and Change

Arabic

Arabic Without Walls

Madinah Arabic

Moroccan Arabic

Armenian

Depi Hayk

Bengali

Learn Bangla (Register to see course)

Catalan

Parla.Cat

Speak Cat

Chinese (Mandarin)

Beginner

Chinese for Beginners

Chinese Characters for Beginners

Chinese for HSK 1

Chinese for HSK 2

Chinese for HSK 3 I & II

Chinese for HSK 4

Chinese for HSK 5

Mandarin Chinese Level I

Mandarin Chinese Essentials

Mandarin Chinese for Business

More Chinese for Beginners

Start Talking Mandarin Chinese

UT Gateway to Chinese

Intermediate

Intermediate Business Chinese

Intermediate Chinese Grammar

Mandarin for Intermediate Learners I

Dutch

Introduction to Dutch

English

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Faroese

Faroese Course

Finnish

A Taste of Finnish

French

Beginner

AP French Language and Culture

Elementary French I & II

Français Interactif

Vivre en France - A1

Vivre en France- A2

Intermediate & Advanced

French Intermediate course B1-B2

Passe-Partout

Travailler en France A2-B1                    

Vivre en France - B1  

German

Beginner

Deutsch im Blick

German Project

German at Work

Goethe Institute

Gwich’in

Introduction to Gwich’in Language

Hebrew

Biblical Hebrew

UT Austin

Hindi

A Door into Hindi

Virtual Hindi

Icelandic

Icelandic 1-5

Indonesian

Learn Indonesian

Irish

Irish 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107

Italian

Beginner

Beginner’s Italian I

Introduction to Italian

Intermediate & Advanced

AP Italian Language and Culture

Intermediate Italian I

Advanced Italian I

Japanese

Genki

Japanese JOSHU

Japanese Pronunciation

Marugoto Courses

Tufs JpLang

Korean

Beginner

First Step Korean

How to Study Korean

Introduction to Korean

Learn to Speak Korean

Pathway to Spoken Korean

Intermediate

Intermediate Korean

Norwegian

Introduction to Norwegian I, Norwegian II

Norwegian on the Web

Persian

Easy Persian

PersianDee

Polish

Online Course

Portuguese

Pluralidades em Português Brasileiro

Russian

Beginner

A1 Course

I speak Russian

Intermediate

B1 Course

B1+ Course

B2.1 Course

B2.2 Course

Spanish

Beginner

AP Spanish Language & Culture

Basic Spanish I, Spanish II

Spanish for beginners  

Spanish for Beginners 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Spanish Vocabulary

Advanced

Corrección, Estilo y Variaciones 

Leer a Macondo

Swahili

Online Course

Turkish

Online Course

Ukrainian

Read Ukrainian

Speak Ukrainian

Welsh

Beginner’s Welsh

Discovering Wales

Yoruba

Yorùbá Yé Mi

Multiple Languages

Ancient Languages

More Language Learning Resources & Websites!

Last updated: May 2019

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if english was consistently written, i would not have the lot-cloth-thought-palm merger

i have since learned how to pronounce and [kinda] differentiate /ɑ/, /ɒ/, and /ɔ/; i just don't know where to put each one so i only use /ɔ/

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Happy International Mother Language Day!

Feliz Dia Internacional da Língua Materna!

woohoo.