You're always talking yourself down, but a lot of people think you're great. You're a pretty smart guy.

If you want to try learning, I think that the lessons are pretty good so far. Start with lesson one and tell me how you do. Let me know if you need any help or if I made any mistakes!

Well, you're doing a great job.  Thank you.

Side note: the site is now averaging about 2,000 unique visitors a month -- and rising all the time!  A lot of people are interested in Talossan, it turns out.

Got a good start on it tonight.

https://talossan.net/lesson-four/

What did the Scribe say when you asked his opinion about this?

@Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC , I believe the third lesson is all set and approved.

https://talossan.net/lesson-three/

I anticipate the fourth lesson will be much easier to write.

Quote from: Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial, UrGP on July 05, 2025, 05:52:43 PMThe table hasn't updated yet on my end, but the exercise is correct.

Weird, it should be correct now with the better list you gave.  Well, I'll check from a different IP later to see if it's still wrong to others.

Quote from: Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial, UrGP on July 05, 2025, 05:56:24 PMIn Lesson One, you're translating "ran" into "coriarha" (future tense) in the second and third extra exercises, it should be "corieva" like in the first.

Also, Lesson One translates "horse" as "caval" while Lesson Three uses "aic" instead. Both are correct, but it might be confusing to beginners if left unexplained.

EDIT: You also don't explain à + el > àl, only à + la > àl, that too might be confusing.

Fixed, thanks!  Wow, you went back and checked them all!

Also, if possible, would you make sure my extra practice questions are all correct?  Should be a pretty easy thing to check.

And if that's all correct, then I think we're set with this lesson!

Quote from: Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial, UrGP on July 05, 2025, 05:33:15 PMAh, no, acute accents never show up word-finally, and grave accents only ever show up word-finally (except in the word àl).

Oh, I really thought there were some... huh, okeydokey!  Thanks!

Fixed the chart, then.  Does it look correct now?  And is the exercise after it correct?

Quote from: Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial, UrGP on July 05, 2025, 05:11:39 PMWhat do you mean?

I mean I know that there's functionally no difference between the two, but I thought there were words that ended in each? Maybe I'm mistaken?

I'm just imagining excluding one or the other from this chart, and having someone wondering why it's missing.

I know that é and è are the same, but aren't there words that end in both?

Quote from: Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial, UrGP on July 05, 2025, 10:27:35 AMYour pluralisation table is missing 1st declension nouns ending in stressed vowels, which actually makes the exercise afterwards impossible:

The singular of "lapins" isn't "lapin" (so looking it up on Översteir won't give you any results), but rather "lapì". These types of nouns are often enough that they should be accounted for.

Okay, I think that I have fixed it.  There's really no way to know which version of the first declension it might be, right?  It could be either lapin or lapì, if you don't actually know the word.  So if you're learning, you just have to look them each up and see which one is right.  Unless I missing a trick here?

Quote from: Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial, UrGP on July 05, 2025, 10:27:35 AMAs for the complexity of it all: this (along with pronunciation and stress placement) is the type of thing I've always struggled with the most when making learning materials: all the complexity is front-loaded. In a way I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one who's struggling.

Yeah, it's really hard, especially if you're new to languages and the idea of declensions (or even "irregular" words).

I'm trying to make it as simple as possible with the charts, since I know that many people run into a wall of text and exceptions and so on and then just deflate.

Next lesson is going to be more practice with those charts, for that reason, to make the tool as familiar as possible.  (Once I get it to actually be right, that is.  My expertise is in teaching, not in languages.  Thank you again for your help!)

I think if I ever wrote a long speech about a case, and included the sentence, "I do not know the facts of the case," I might pause.

Oh, right! Thank you. That's the problem with starting something and then finishing it like 2 months later: you lose track of what you were doing.

Okay, I'll take another run at fixing it up.

Okay, this lesson is done  There will be some "further exercises" to do, but the hard part is done.  @Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial, UrGP , any issues with it?  I know that my pluralization chart is not exactly right (third declension isn't as simple as "a syllable with ä"), but I think it gets it as close as you can get without being excessively complicated.

https://talossan.net/lesson-three/