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Zereskaoate · Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 7:17 am Post subject:

Ugh, that is like me. Once, I was talking to my friend, and we were yelling about stuff blowing up (yeah, don't ask), and without even realizing it I said something like "kaqma! soila kaqma!" ("Destruction! Lots of Destruction!"). I still get creeped out by that.
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imploder · Tšur Joined: 28 Jun 2006 Location: Brno, Czech Republic

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BettyCross · Gent Joined: 26 Jun 2006 Location: NC Research Triangle

I can't speak my Conlang #1. I used it for personal and place names in my 80's-90's conworld, and for not much else.

I could speak my Conlang #2 haltingly, and after a few weeks of practice I could probably be quite fluent in it. Since it's a Germanic conlang with most of the characteristics of an Ingvaeonic language, and therefore not very different from Anglo-Saxon, this is not hard for me.

I can speak my Conlang #3 but with great difficulty. I don't have much vocabulary yet and the lang's pitch accent takes a lot of practice. If I'm not careful, I find myself ignoring the pitches and using English sentence intonation.

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Sano · Šalea Joined: 09 Sep 2004 Location: shoulder deep...

I speak Qatama all of the time...ocasionally having to glance over the grammar, as for Ilya, I can get thru a basic conversation, but if there was a viable test for me to take, I'd likely not do near as well as I would with Qatama.

I have 2 cipherlangs that I can use without looking at the keys, and with one of them I have tweaked the grammar and phonology, so it's slowly becoming a cipher/con-lang that I am very fluent in...
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Jon · Endi Joined: 01 May 2007 Location: Pangaea

At one point towards the end of last year, I was getting quite good with my knowledge of Marijo. My vocab, which I surprisingly found more of a struggle than grammar, was becoming pretty good, and I was able to translate some simple sentences from English to Marijo without looking it up at all.

Conversely, I could read and understand some passages I had created in Marijo without looking them up. But alas...I've sadly abandoned Marijo and all things conlang over the last couple of months and my knowledge of vocab has dropped sharply. Neutral

I'm still fairly confident with Marijo grammar, but I'm nowhere near the level of fluency I was.

That's the problem with conlangs: if you're the only person who knows yours, it's harder to keep up a good level of fluency than to reach that stage in the first place.

jimhenry · Ur Joined: 21 Jan 2008

Back in January I posted a survey on this subject. A lot of people responded; to whom, many thanks; but if you are more or less fluent in your conlang and haven't responded to it yet, please take a look at it.

http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/conlang/fluency-survey.html

I still haven't had time to analyze the survey results from January and start working on my article for Rick Harrison's Invented Languages zine. I hope to get to that soon after I finish a couple of current projects.

ekobor · Ur Joined: 04 May 2008

It greatly depends. As I haven't really even started to think about the Jjarrccovv or Sylvykovarioustall languages, there is no way I can be fluent in them.
(Not to mention that the Jjarrccovv have a bunch of clicking noises, and the Sylvykovarioustall have 'accents' that denote how fast, large, and spaced bubbles from your mouth, ears, and the air sacs under their eyes come out. Makes it hard to learn without a native speaker on hand...)

But, with T'el'eon, my main conlang, I'm realitively fluent.
If I'm barely awake, I speak in it. If I'm scared/startled, I speak in it.
Pretty much, if you catch me off guard, it'll come pouring out of my mouth like some elusive curse word.

But, I can still tell you what I said in it.

My favourite was when someone slammed a car door right beside me, and I yelled:

s'eko k'ena me kane-fe set'ok'o!
Stop hitting me with fish!

Yeah.... ^^;;
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Douglas · Endi Joined: 14 Jun 2003 Location: San Jose

Not yet, still developing the verb system.
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Nadreck · Endi Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Location: Los Angeles

About foqo kepi, I can only wish.
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bulbaquil · Mey Joined: 17 Nov 2006 Location: chomin kyarbate surmete

Right now? Still trying to memorize its alphabet.
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Mayishi · Iseléaku Joined: 20 Jun 2008

I am quite fluent in speaking. I have found it a challenge to understand it spoken. I make audio and then play it back a few weeks or months later to test myself. I usually only understand half of it but it's something I would love to work on. I speak the first language I created on a daily basis though no one really understands. I have a habit of mixing dialects which probably doesn't help me much. It has led me to discover how slang might evolve in speech over the years and I have been able to solve sound issues.
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Aeetlcreejl · Mey Joined: 31 Jul 2007 Location: Obviously somewhere

I can.
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Chuma · Gent Joined: 28 Oct 2006 Location: Centrum Scaniae

I worked briefly on a Germanic conlang, more or less an auxlang. I could definitely understand that, which was pretty much the idea. But I wouldn't try to learn an a priori conlang, particularly someone else's. I know it's a boring thing to say, but, I'd rather devote my time to learn a language I can actually use.

Altho I do think I can at least pronounce all the 48 phonemes of Rammy17. Razz

Also, sorry about the long-time quoting, but:

C'eler · Endi Joined: 06 Apr 2008

I can speak my conlang at a basic level. Pronunciation I have no problem with, but I have trouble remembering words. I can read it with a little effort and write it with no effort. I can understand bi-lingual posts I have made, but that's about it.

I know a little Ozhdik (from DreaminJosh on Omniglot) and I'm actively learning Espiritolan (from Imbecilica). I know basic Esperanto, and I'm trying to find a way to learn Solresol. I can also write pretty decent Blissymbolics, and I know basic Toki Pona (I'm actually trying to adapt Blissym for Toki Pona. Not working out so well).

Deinjur · Për Joined: 28 Apr 2006 Location: California Bay Area

I can definitely write in Pitak and read Pitak; I designed it to be very simple and to have easily read markers in the words to let you know what parts of speech they are. But by the time I finish with all the changes as it evolves into Fauleethik, I know it will be too complex to easily read and write in it.

And just to show off, I'll translate everything I just typed:
Li tefinu kana pista na Pitak i rita Pitak; Li la tesano sawa maposu i la lafa posu maki if a paki le neka nasta kwi tasi na litif lu sa. No kwe li lu fine siku rameni kato la if Faliten sakoma, Li nasa la tosilu ritwe i ratwe se.

Wink

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Tsiasuk-Pron · Tšur Joined: 29 May 2005 Location: Long Island, NY, USA

StrangeMagic · Endi Joined: 08 Mar 2007

I can remember the odd word and that, but I've pretty much got my head around the word order and the grammar side of my language. However, it is the vocabulary which I still need to work on. I think reading it may be easier than typing. I can remember some of the characters in the script.
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Seth · Ur Joined: 25 Jun 2008

I am almost a "native Lossan", if people can achieve citizenry at a connation.

Lossána Version:

Iu soi cuasi un Lossano nativè, ci ilax personàntx pudi peguari citianadè pér il connaxaè.
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Saldi nune ne suna cordè max seretanè
Di una grimeverè quietè de "sheen" tranluxentè
Cantàntx di argentè pequegnù di crixta lapidis
Per ila mè d'ila regnè di Acuè.

TaylorS · Për Joined: 05 Jul 2008 Location: Moorhead, MN, USA

I think I have the phonology and pitch-accent system of Eridanian, my English-derived agglutinative (and very first) conlag, down enough so I can say individual, un-agglutinated words. I still need to work on the agglutive affixes and clitcs.

Jaaaaaa · Šalea Joined: 13 Sep 2002

Shigeru · Mey Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Location: Garland, Texas

not only can i write in my conlang i can speak it, although sometimes i realzie i don't have the word for soemthing so i say tá-té which means "whatchamcallit"

in fact i'll break into speaking it at work, much to my coworkers confusion.
most often i say xrem-gállat let-gethà "crap in a hat"
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LJ · Për Joined: 20 Feb 2006 Location: The Netherlands