Re: Learning your own conlang (was Re: Now that I have it . . .)

 >From: Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...>
 >
 >What I find most useful, though others' mileage (or parsecage, or
 >kilometrage, or whatever) may vary, is to start writing a "teach yourself
 >[insert conlang here]" primer with plenty of examples.

        This has been my approach for Vaior.  I have a sketch of an
Ur-primer, but as I wrote the Vaior primer it became clear that
different sorts of languages have wildly different didactic needs, at
least for English speakers.  Perhaps separate isolating, synthetic and
agglutinating proto-primers would work...

        The absolute best way to learn your own language, though, is
to combine the "write a primer" approach with "teach a friend."  A
friend of mine thinks Vaior is very cool, but he's not linguistically
trained at all, so I get very pointed questions about usage, etc.
This really gets you thinking about how the language works, and
deepens your own understanding.

--
William Annis  -  System Administrator -  Biomedical Computing Group
"When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do
towards other humans."                       Marcus Aurelius  VII.65

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