I found this the other day and I might try it because it has a page on writing too, I can currently only speak it.yo if you want help with writing I can do that, I just don't have useful vocab/grammar
yo if you want help with writing I can do that, I just don't have useful vocab/grammarok, that would be awesome! I think it would better if you could post here. (that is sorta what this is for after all) It seems like we started learning at opposite ends of the spectrum; I was focusing more on vocab (Still don't really have grammar & sentence structure down though) :))
Hit me up by pm, or I could post here.
I'll whip something up asap.Great! I can make a quick thing on vocab if you want?
Might be a few days, but best-case I can make it fancy and double it up with art-class work.
Okay so I was practicing some Tengwar in class and a friend was looking over my shoulder and wondered what it was. I told them it was elvish and they were like "oh cool can I learn" and now I have kinda gathered a learning group of about 5 people and we are starting a linguistics club in our school all thanks to your tutorial an the butterfly effect... ;Doh gosh congratulations! I showed some tengwar practice to people in art and they were like "that's neat" and kept doing their thing :P
oh gosh congratulations! I showed some tengwar practice to people in art and they were like "that's neat" and kept doing their thing :P
At one point I was making notes in my sketchbook in tengwar (but just transcribing English...) because I didn't really like other people looking at my comments. Some of my friends recognized it as elvish but that's about it.
Okay so I was practicing some Tengwar in class and a friend was looking over my shoulder and wondered what it was. I told them it was elvish and they were like "oh cool can I learn" and now I have kinda gathered a learning group of about 5 people and we are starting a linguistics club in our school all thanks to your tutorial an the butterfly effect... ;D
And then you and your Team of Awesome can go on to document mission-critical computer stuff in Tengwar. For the lulz.
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20040319
I once heard a story of someone who wrote a term paper in Tengwar. Unfortunately, the prof got a ta to transliterate it back and it wasn't a very good essay. :P
Actually Luth, and anyone else learning Sindarin, I'm curious to know what drew you to wanting to learn Sindarin over the other fictional languages from the Tolkein universe ? I'd actually never given Sindarin any thought weirdly enough and have only paid attention to or given any effort into learning Quenya instead of Sindarin, as do most people I've known who have tried to learn a fictional Tolkein language pick Quenya over Sindarin or any of the others, so I guess I'm just curious about what draws people to pick what language. I'd also given a bit of time into reading up on Westron which is the common tongue / lingua franca of middle earth at least during the third age when Lord of the Rings takes place.