Is anyone already working on specific items? I don't want to duplicate the effort.

Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on December 18, 2024, 03:34:19 PM

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN on December 17, 2024, 08:13:18 PMThis is a common problem with language learning among people who are monolingual, they assume precisely that - that other languages are "codes", the same rules as their own language but with the vocabulary swapped out. I remember being 10, trying to translate "I don't know" into German and looking up the word for "do".

This is why we need real, *real*, like baby-level Talossan 101 materials for people who don't even get that there are such things as verb conjugations.

This is something that I remember asking for help with on Fora Talossa. It didn't get much uptake then. I am hoping to add more helpful and accurate editions to the ongoing Talossan 101 materials on FT and the call for help will hopefully be taken up there or by another group.

*Crickets*

@Miestră Schivă, UrN , is the prize for this contest the whole of the available cultural grant money?

I was motivated to write a short story for this competition by the money. It might be mercenary, but I have a lot of responsibilities and limited time. Doing something challenging that helps me learn is great, yet it's time away from other stuff I need to do. The chance of a small prize was a great motivator (which is maybe obvious, since it's the whole point of prizes).

I recently did a line-by-line translation of one stanza of a poem, and I think it might be beneficial to do such a thing for even simpler sentences and then make it accessible.  I think there's a grant program in the budget (or maybe there just used to be), so maybe I'll pitch that and see if it helps.  My Talossan isn't great, but it's better than nothing and probably it's infinitely easier to just make small fixes to someone else's lesson than to think through and write out the whole thing.

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN on December 18, 2024, 02:09:49 PM

Quote from: Barclamïu da Miéletz on December 17, 2024, 11:53:48 PM

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN on December 17, 2024, 08:13:18 PMI remember being 10

I spoke two languages fluently at that age + decent English you could say (look I'm the child of migrants so obviously I will speak more than one language.)

In my country, anyone* who learns a non-English language willingly is known to be a woke homosexual

(* this is slightly softened in the case of te reo Māori, in which case you're a dangerous political radical)

Interesting...

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN on December 17, 2024, 08:13:18 PMThis is a common problem with language learning among people who are monolingual, they assume precisely that - that other languages are "codes", the same rules as their own language but with the vocabulary swapped out. I remember being 10, trying to translate "I don't know" into German and looking up the word for "do".

This is why we need real, *real*, like baby-level Talossan 101 materials for people who don't even get that there are such things as verb conjugations.

This is something that I remember asking for help with on Fora Talossa. It didn't get much uptake then. I am hoping to add more helpful and accurate editions to the ongoing Talossan 101 materials on FT and the call for help will hopefully be taken up there or by another group.

Quote from: Barclamïu da Miéletz on December 17, 2024, 11:53:48 PM

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN on December 17, 2024, 08:13:18 PMI remember being 10

I spoke two languages fluently at that age + decent English you could say (look I'm the child of migrants so obviously I will speak more than one language.)

In my country, anyone* who learns a non-English language willingly is known to be a woke homosexual

(* this is slightly softened in the case of te reo Māori, in which case you're a dangerous political radical)

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN on December 17, 2024, 08:13:18 PMI remember being 10

I spoke two languages fluently at that age + decent English you could say (look I'm the child of migrants so obviously I will speak more than one language.)

Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on October 20, 2024, 01:36:24 AM

Quote from: Bentxamì Puntmasleu on October 04, 2024, 09:30:15 PMCitizens, the position of Permanent Secretary of the Bureau of Humanitarian Aid is created within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This Permanent Secretary is responsible for researching worthy humanitarian causes, identifying specific representatives of these causes, drafting proposals to disperse funds to these representatives, and generally overseeing the ways Talossa can make a positive impact in the world.

All interested citizens are encouraged to apply for this position by announcing so in this thread. Interviews will conducted with the Minister over Wittenberg personal messaging. The deadline to apply is 11:59pm TST on October 18th, 2024/XLV.

The deadline passed yesterday. @Bentxamì Puntmasleu were there any enquiries?

@Bentxamì Puntmasleu or @Mic'haglh Autófil, SMC EiP Wanted to follow up on this. Were there any enquiries for this new position?

This is a common problem with language learning among people who are monolingual, they assume precisely that - that other languages are "codes", the same rules as their own language but with the vocabulary swapped out. I remember being 10, trying to translate "I don't know" into German and looking up the word for "do".

This is why we need real, *real*, like baby-level Talossan 101 materials for people who don't even get that there are such things as verb conjugations.