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I doth hath several requests, but I will choose only 2. I would like to learn modern demotic Greek and Hebrew (modern or Biblical) if at all possible.

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Magnae clunes mihi placent, nec possum de hac re mentiri. -Multomixtor

Threat?

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I just rediscovered some posts on basic Italian I made for another forum few years ago, about articles and verb conjugation in the present and stuff. Would anyone be interested?

Yup

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I second that.

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I was wondering if there are any “Hand-held Conlanging Guides” out there.

Allow me to explain what I want if you can’t infer from the name. When I started I was 110% new to linguistics and Conlanging. (and percentages apparently) Much like the art student who is given a blank sheet of paper and told “Fill it with your dreams!” it can be very overwhelming where to start, what to do and how to know when you’re done*.

I think it would be nice if there was something with steps, so that if you followed the tutorial 1 step 1 to step 50 you would end up with a fully-functional, coherent conlang. It might not be particularly interesting, but it would provide complete beginners like me learning the ropes.

Some example steps might be “Pick at least 1 from each of the following vowel categories: (/ y i u/ ) (/e ə ɛ/) (/a æ ɶ/)

I think the closest would be the Language Construction Kit itself....or this Workshop's packets: http://podcast.conlang.org/2011/08/reno ... materials/

It would be awesome if someone made lessons for:

Mandarin
Japanese
Navajo
Basque

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I'd like to see some more general lessons like:
-Setting up IPA input on computers
-Introduction to sound changes
-Introduction to syntactic alignments

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Ikasmu ati'uki nai uraiur.
Hinai nimuśim naimi nai sasamiur urukani. Śi'ama nai huhumiur na ni'amuśim nai sasamiur.
Pumaki nimuśim śima'a na ami nimuśim ara'a. Hini nihrasum i'aku tumra urukani na nihrasum sanik hraspir.

I'd really like the first two lessons.

Ich auch. Moi aussi.

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I could do some stuff for Navajo, but I'd need some help for grammar stuff, if anyone else is familiar with the language.

Hey guys, I found several more resources for Navajo, so if anyone still wants some Navajo lessons I'd be happy to write something up.

Do it.

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I happen to have had a lecture on that just this semester. As I'm in my vorlesungsfreie Zeit now, I think (because I don't have enough open projects ...) I'll tackle this one!

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Ikasmu ati'uki nai uraiur.
Hinai nimuśim naimi nai sasamiur urukani. Śi'ama nai huhumiur na ni'amuśim nai sasamiur.
Pumaki nimuśim śima'a na ami nimuśim ara'a. Hini nihrasum i'aku tumra urukani na nihrasum sanik hraspir.

Semester break?



Thanks! I'll look forward to it.

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Correct.

vor-les-ungs-frei-e Zeit
front-read-N-free-ADJ.F time
"time free from lectures"

Vorlesung somehow never has anything to do with vorlesen which is reading aloud (vor- probably indicating the in-front-of-people-thing).

btw, just in case you didn't notice:
My Guide to Sound Changes

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I wondered whether a short & stepwise beginner's guide to glossing may be helpful. Because I see some folks struggling with those and I myself found the Leipzig Glossing Rules not to be written in a very accessible way.
If there's demand for that, I'll be happy to procrastinate a little on my sound change guide and jump onto this one .

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