Motivation > “Le président Emmanuel Macron assure le peuple canadien que le gouvernement français va continuer à défendre le Canada contre la menace américain.” Even if you don’t speak French, you can probably understand, or at least get the gist of, the above sentence: the French president Emmanuel Macron is...
I designed my own writing system and wrote about it on my personal website. I discuss why the current system of English spelling is bad, how VJScript fixes these issues, and provide plenty of detailed examples of what the writing system looks like. The name "VJScript" is a portmanteau of...
“Le président Emmanuel Macron assure le peuple canadien que le gouvernement français va continuer à défendre le Canada contre la menace américain.”
Even if you don’t speak French, you can probably understand, or at least get the gist of, the above sentence: the French president Emmanuel Macron is assuring the “peuple canadien” (Canadian people) about something involving the “gouvernment français” (French government). Imagine reading thousands of sentences like this and gradually acquiring French, backdooring into the language using cognates you already know. This is known as comprehensible input, a language learning technique first advocated for by linguist Stephen Krashen in the 1980s.
Comprehensible input is a good language learning method, but creating comprehensible input... (read 2760 more words →)
I designed my own writing system and wrote about it on my personal website. I discuss why the current system of English spelling is bad, how VJScript fixes these issues, and provide plenty of detailed examples of what the writing system looks like. The name "VJScript" is a portmanteau of my name "Vijay" and the word "script".
As a sneak peak, here's what a typical sentence in VJScript looks like:
If this sounds interesting to you, you can check out the post here: https://www.vkethana.com/vjscript/
This is my first serious blog post, so thanks for reading!
