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Language-related links

Conlang & conscript resources

Cool & interesting conlangs & conscripts

  • Ardalambion - a comprehensive site on Tolkien's languages (if you're interested in Tolkien, I also recommend A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages, edited by Dimitra Fimi & Andrew Higgins!)
  • Toki Pona - a conlang with extremely limited words
  • Oou: the insane language - "even Oou experts cannot communicate clearly using it, as miscommunication and confusion are integral to the language"
  • Ithkuil - a language that uses "a matrix of grammatical concepts intended to express deeper levels of human cognition more overtly, logically, and precisely than natural languages"
  • Hanziyu - a language based on Chinese characters
  • Seraphim - a multi-channel angelic conlang
  • Tapissary - a hieroglyphic language

Cool & interesting real languages

Language-learning

    Conlangs
  • Lernu - the website for learning Esperanto
  • sona pi toki pona - playlist of videos to learn Toki Pona

    • Real languages
  • Learn Cherokee on RSU TV - a really extensive free video course on Cherokee
  • Commanding Hands - Youtube channel teaching British Sign Language vocabulary
  • Comprehensible Japanese - Youtube channel with long videos in simple Japanese for learners
  • Japanese Ammo with Misa - Youtube channel with thorough and informative videos on a huge range of grammar points
  • Kaname Naito - Youtube channel with short but informative and effective videos on a huge range of grammar points
  • Michel Thomas method: Japanese foundation course and advanced course - a method of language-learning that doesn't require any note-taking or traditional studying, just listening and repeating
  • Wanikani - great system for learning Japanese kanji
  • Scottish Gaelic on Duolingo - yeah yeah I know about the memes but the Scottish Gaelic course is actually really good

Language videos I like