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[Horizon]

Honestly being able to speak English we're so lucky. I went to Singapore and Vietnam recently and everyone speaks english so well. Even road signs in vietnam are in english.

[Legend]

Honestly being able to speak English we're so lucky. I went to Singapore and Vietnam recently and everyone speaks english so well. Even road signs in vietnam are in english.

Yeah I'm glad English won over French as our lingua franca.

Sure makes it easier to travel.

[Legend]

I'm sure non conlangers think most conlangs sound this crazy and pointless.  

[Legend]

I am nearly illiterate with my conlang from Hapax. I'm like a linguist that can tell you everything about it but I can't actually speak it without a translation book.

[Legend]

Decided to do a quick mini game jam and build my own Duolingo equivalent. Got the dictionary set up and two memory games, but I need to get some sort of score and progression system so I can keep things focused as I add more words.

[Legend]

I finished my duolingo clone the other day and it's working pretty well.

I wanted to avoid all English so I'm a bit limited on how the lessons work. Can't really do translation practice if there's nothing to translate from. Instead it's just pictures that I have to match with a word.

[Legend]

I know it's just me but it's really really fun to learn my language. I freeze up every time the app asks me to write a word, but I can recognize ~50 words now which is pretty dang awesome. Beforehand I could literally only recognize 1 word.

Very weird learning a written language without a way to speak it. It already feels odd and I'm excited to see what it's like when I get better. Grammar will be really interesting since I break a lot of human language rules. Will my brain adapt or will I stay as slow as I am now?



It's a bit slow since I have to make the lessons myself but I hope I can make quick progress. I'm so rusty with Japanese that I've probably already surpassed it. My dutch is very rusty too but I have a bit to go before I surpass that. Would be awesome if I eventually know Hapax's language even better than Spanish but that's a tall order. edt: duolingo says I learned 384 words in my best language so I guess that's my next goal.

[Legend]

I don't want this thread to just become my personal soapbox, but it's hard learning a language!

First dozen words were so easy but now every time I learn new stuff it feels like my understanding of previous words slips a bit. Even words that I thought I knew really well look completely foreign to me at times. Don't remember it being this bad with Dutch or Japanese on duolingo so maybe its a problem with my language being alien, maybe it's a problem with the way my app teaches things, or maybe I've just become a bigger idiot  

104 words that I have studied so far, 89 of which I tend to know. Grammar is what it is.

[Legend]

I had my first dream last night involving my language. It was more of a fever dream of me just jumping back and forth on how to say something, but it is still pretty dang cool that it was even involved in a dream.

Wonder if I'll ever be able to think in it. That'd be bloody weird as a written only language.

[Legend]

Learn Japanese through "mild immersion" in a game

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— Study Bunny Games (@StudyBunnyGames) February 4, 2024

Someone made it @the-Pi-guy


With my own language I haven't been the best at remembering to practice. I think I need to program in some new features to mix it up, keep it engaging for my monkey brain.

I'm up to 155 words so still some good progress.


It's also really really exciting that my language can even work as a language. It's wholly unique, unlike anything on Earth, so for years every time I tried to translate things it'd just fall apart. I had to overhaul the grammar system so many times. Wasn't till last year or so that it actually started to click and only a few months ago did things feel really good and worth locking in.

[Legend]

I added some new things to my duolingo duplicate.

Made "flappy word." Instead of a bird it shows a random word in my language. Then it shows four pictures for each arrow key. I need to click a matching picture (there might be multiple) for the word to bounce. It is really great at getting me to just trust what a word is instead of analyzing it.

Another thing I implemented is a wordle clone. Just a nice way to care more about how alien words are spelled. Alien words aren't spelled like human words but it fits pretty well.


Also had some big breakthroughs on the design side. Basically I had figured out how things could be said in my language, but I was struggling with figuring out how paragraph equivalents would actually present themselves. I got that implemented in a way that I think players will enjoy. From the perspective of learning the language though, it's pretty interesting moving more and more away from how human languages handle things. So far my brain has not adapted and I don't know if it ever will. I can easily translate more and more but I don't know if I'll ever be able to think in my language. Individual words sure but "sentences" and "paragraphs" probably not. It's just so unnormal. I'm having to push myself to not read words allowed with an English translation.

[Legend]

an important message from Duolingo pic.twitter.com/jTTT680yVs

— Duolingo (@duolingo) February 11, 2025

wtf lol