hey, i'm tsukaj.

i'm mainly active on gemini.

i'll be using this website to develop and publish my methodology for learning a language. it's still a work in progress, but hopefully it'll still be helpful to whoever somehow finds this.

note also that this method is intended as a framework for learning any arbitrary language, and so is less relevant if you plan on studying and mastering no more than a single "second language".

why learn?

efficiency of communication

language as identity

- speaking to the mind vs to the heart

- languages considered difficult + the significance of learning them

- minority, non-standard + "low-class" language

importance of person-to-person communication in digital age

why learn how to learn?

ease of learning

ease of mastery

demystification of the concept of language as a whole

ability to analyse + learn non-standard/underdocumented language

- native speakers are not teachers

ability to recognise the idiosyncracies of your own native tongue and work around them

linguistics 101

what is linguistics?

- phonology

- phonetics

- morphology

- syntax

- semantics

- pragmatics

- typology

typology

- correlation to difficulty of acquisition

- dominant order

- analytic vs synthetic

- isolational, agglutinative, and fusional

- noun classes

- binary, trinary, etc

- noun cases

- understanding syntax

phonetics

- IPA

- POA

- MOA

- vowels

phonology

- contrast

- phonemes

- allophones

- contextual allophony

- free variation

- phonotactics

prioritisation

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