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This is great!

I've been taking a free Turkish class at my university, but I haven't yet come into contact with any Turkish outside of the class. I'm not very good yet, but I can understand a fair amount so far!

Thanks for the guide!

Ossicone wrote:One of things I most appreciate in a grammar is good formatting.

This is a fantastic point. I've rewritten my grammars several times based almost entirely on formatting decisions.

My longest grammar is pushing 40 pages, but it grows and shrinks as examples come and go and constructions change.

Went camping in the desert for a week; came back to civilization with a very much refined mood affix system (though there is still much to do).

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Sigh... I haven't had much time to do any significant work for several weeks. I've been loaded with classwork, and finals are coming up. :-s But by Sunday I will have plenty of time to sit back, relax, and conlang. Sincerely looking forward to that. It will be a welcome change to my hectic schedule.

I've got a particle I'm wondering what I should call. I'm also wondering if it exists in any other language. I currently call it a topic particle, because this language is kind of like Japanese with the topic-comment structure. Here's an example of its use: Ŋa saņ ḩa ḩuanze daisi é? - Today is hot ...

I've found that once you've gotten used to the sounds examples that they actually do have on wikipedia, you generally no longer need to hear them to know what they sound like. Maybe that's true. Perhaps I just need more practice. Or hear more samples of people speaking in languages with which I'm n...

Thanks for the links, but I'm familiar with the Wikipedia pages and audio archives on IPA; my experience with the Wikipedia sound inventory, however, has been... limiting. It seems like not enough of the more uncommon places of articulation have audio examples, and those are the ones I really want t...

I don't suppose anyone could point me in the direction of a repository of audio files which give examples of the different sounds represented by different IPA symbols? I can do the most basic sounds, but sounds in certain places of articulation can be difficult for me to conceptualize or produce on ...