The Book of Few Words but a Thousand Languages

Introduction

Hello everyone and I'd like to say thank you all for giving this a shot. Full disclaimer, I am not someone with authority in this field. I am not a professional, I am not a linguist or a polyglot, neither am I in college for a related field, and I don't even study these things super extensively. I am simply someone with a sincere interest in languages who hopes to help others, and maybe get a bit of help myself.

Now that that's out of the way, I'd like to go just a little bit more in depth with how this is gonna go. For those of you who don't care to go super in depth, you can go ahead and skip this as you can pretty much get the gist from the description. For those who'd like to know the details, the main thing is I will post a chapter with a language. I will share basic facts, any personal interest of mine in the language, and whatever else, depending on the language. In the comments, if you know the language and would be willing to help someone learn it, you can post a comment saying so. If you volunteer, keep an eye on your notifications so that you'll know if someone wants your help to learn it. If you're interested in learning the language, you can also comment, and wait to see if someone who knows the language wants to help. Once said people talk in the comments for a while or just have a quick exchange, they can start to message one another individually and teach the language. Since this is in English, I expect more people to be interested in learning than people who see this and happen to know the specific language, and since it's easier to teach a language you're fluent in than to learn a whole new one, more than one person can learn from one person, while one person is not necessarily advised to learn from multiple. If I were to give advice on how to learn, I'd suggest learning the most basic vocabulary(pronouns, simple fraises, things like I want, animal, I don't, how to say 'how do you say_?'), and the basic syntax and the barest of grammar rules so that they have a foundation before going further. Once again, I'm not an expert, I am far from one, so take this with a grain of salt, this is just a suggestion based off what I've seen and my own viewpoint. Above all make sure to teach based off of how your new students learns.

I will be adding languages based on nothing in particular. I have a list of languages I personally find interesting but it's not in any particular order and it's not super long. As there is no predictability, I will be happy to take suggestions for any language you'd like to see. If I don't get any suggestions and I finish my list I will look at a combination of how useful the language is in terms of how many people speak it, how often it's used in business, and just if I think it's cool to decide which to add. I would like to say right out of the gate that I will not be adding French, Spanish, or German. They are so common and they have so many resources including a required class for high school that I don't feel like this would be adding much to it, unlike less common languages like Welsh and Lithuanian which don't have many resources.

Finally I'd like to say that if you are a professional in this field, I would be thrilled to talk to you. Anything you have to say concerning this method of mine, little tweaks, or even if you don't, I'd just love to talk to someone with extensive knowledge on the subject. I'm a huge linguistics weirdo, even though I don't know much about it and I'd really really REALLY like to talk to you.

I will not be updating at all constantly but you can expect me to update anywhere from numerous times a day to once a month. 

Lots of love, Hunterwing ^-^