User talk:Kralj boema

Hi Kralj

Welcome here. You are a brave person to start a whole new language. I did not actually start the Dutch one. Some German colleagues did, with all consequences thereof, but I did take it over in 2004 (!) when there was little more than a mess and then wrote some 20 lessons. I gave up on it because I could not do much more than write grammar. I have recently returned to update it and I am still working very hard to do so. A language book is a big undertaking.

I think there are also some major issues with language books; they tend to get abandoned and receive few readers and there are reasons. For one thing the wiki software is not exactly designed to be interactive from the reader's part. And to teach language the reader needs to become very active. At the time I could even barely add some sound files because commons was terribly bureaucratic and cumbersome. That is a bit better now, so I have been adding a lot of sound stuff. That still has its cumbersome sides. There are far better ways to engage people in interactivity. I have tried to raise some awareness, but the answer is mostly deafening silence.

Anyway you might want to have a look at Authoring Foreign Language Textbooks. There is some useful info there (even that is not a lot). I recently added the topics on tricks and on using Quizlet and Memrise that have far superior memorization software than we have here.

Anyway: good luck! Jcwf (discuss • contribs) 06:30, 2 June 2015 (UTC)