i'm mainly active on gemini.
i'll be using this website to develop and publish my methodology for learning a language. it's still a work in progress, but hopefully it'll still be helpful to whoever somehow finds this.
note also that this method is intended as a framework for learning any arbitrary language, and so is less relevant if you plan on studying and mastering no more than a single "second language".
efficiency of communication
language as identity
- speaking to the mind vs to the heart
- languages considered difficult + the significance of learning them
- minority, non-standard + "low-class" language
importance of person-to-person communication in digital age
ease of learning
ease of mastery
demystification of the concept of language as a whole
ability to analyse + learn non-standard/underdocumented language
- native speakers are not teachers
ability to recognise the idiosyncracies of your own native tongue and work around them
what is linguistics?
- phonology
- phonetics
- morphology
- syntax
- semantics
- pragmatics
- typology
typology
- correlation to difficulty of acquisition
- dominant order
- analytic vs synthetic
- isolational, agglutinative, and fusional
- noun classes
- binary, trinary, etc
- noun cases
- understanding syntax
phonetics
- IPA
- POA
- MOA
- vowels
phonology
- contrast
- phonemes
- allophones
- contextual allophony
- free variation
- phonotactics