[conlang_learners] Speaking vs Writing

[James Montgomery]

I agree. Speaking and listening skills would seem to be rather advanced for the initial focus of this project. 

They are great long-term goals and sound clips and whatnot could be put up on the wiki page (or some other) to allow for an increasing amount of user-driven audio files to help increase initial auditory comprehension. A free voice-over-internet via chat systems would be cheap, requiring only a microphone (speakers with the computer). 

(It just occurred to me that these same audio files could be an interesting start to compare against if future "dialects" develop)

Oops, out of time.

James

--- On Wed, 6/24/09, Jim Henry <jimhenry1973 at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Jim Henry <jimhenry1973 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [conlang_learners] Speaking vs Writing
> To: conlang_learners at conlang.org
> Date: Wednesday, June 24, 2009, 11:47 PM
> 2009/6/24 Larry Sulky <larrysulky at gmail.com>:
> > On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:30 PM, Arthaey Angosii
> <arthaey at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Is our group goal to become conversational
> *speaking* the conlang we
> >> study, or is writing "good enough"?
> 
> > I was thinking of all three. To me, language is an
> aural medium foremost.
> 
> Given the circumstances, it seems reasonable to make
> speaking a
> longer-term goal than reading and writing, especially if we
> are
> dealing with a conlang whose creator is themselves not
> fluent in
> speaking it yet (a lot more conlangers are good at writing
> and reading
> their conlang than can speak it fluently).
> 
> -- 
> Jim Henry
> http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/
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