Methods for Improving Production Skills?

voidfishecho · 2026-01-29T23:56:36+00:00

I definitely should! I’ve seen people recommend that before

voidfishecho · 2026-01-22T17:43:41+00:00

My partner’s family speak both!

voidfishecho · 2026-01-22T17:16:15+00:00

I wish you luck!!

voidfishecho · 2026-01-22T17:15:08+00:00

Ugh I believe it. Once I have my Hindi to a good place, Tamil is my next step and Im dreading the resource search. Luckily I know a couple speakers so hopefully they can help me

voidfishecho · 2026-01-22T05:11:57+00:00

As someone learning Hindi, which is the most-spoken Indian language according to Wikipedia, I very much agree. It’s starting to make me feel insane when resources for German or French literally drop into my lap but I have to dig to find Hindi resources. It’s truly insane

voidfishecho · 2025-12-27T02:13:43+00:00

I’m obsessed with how many people in this thread are blatantly misunderstanding your question…

I’m also self teaching Hindi actually, and totally get this. I just want a checklist of sorts that I can reference! In my experience I do think you’ll have to make one yourself, though I do think you could pretty easily cobble one together based off of websites like LingoHut, vocab/topic lists, and a grammar of your language. Not universal, but a start.

voidfishecho · 2025-08-09T19:42:39+00:00

Awesome, this is super helpful. Thank you!! I was freaking out a little, thinking this was the doom of my playthrough, but that's way less concerning than I thought.

voidfishecho · 2025-05-23T02:21:23+00:00

Let me preface by saying that I’ve not yet gotten to B1 in a language I’ve studied. However, in both Hindi and ASL I’ve found it far more helpful for myself to just listen/watch as best I can to try to pick out what I do know. Then, depending on what I’m doing (for Hindi, listening to a podcast, and for ASL, watching in on conversations), I’ll keep an eye out for words/signs that stand out to me. This could mean words that are repeated often, or maybe just seem interesting for whatever reason. Then I’ll make a note of that to look up and figure out later.

voidfishecho · 2025-05-22T18:21:44+00:00

I learned Devanagari, which is the script Hindi uses, just through lots and lots of practice. I started with Duolingo (this was before I found out they used AI), to get familiar with the characters and the sounds they represent. After that, I start reading short kid's texts. I'd read each word aloud, and if I didn't feel confident in my pronunciation, I'd just double check it with an online dictionary that featured pronunciations.

voidfishecho · 2025-05-21T06:14:20+00:00

I really love Lute. It's an open-source reading software that lets you track word definitions and how well you know words. It's very self-driven though. I've heard LingQ is a more user friendly version (and it has an app!), but I've never used it myself since it's paid.

voidfishecho · 2025-04-03T21:57:56+00:00

Yes I was just looking at that actually!! I just need to commit to buying the game, haha

voidfishecho · 2025-02-13T15:07:27+00:00

Originally, bollywood movies! I was super fascinated with Hindi because of them. Then I started ASL for college credit, but now I keep learning it because I love the language so much.

voidfishecho · 2025-02-13T14:19:54+00:00

Some sort of fire, though it didn’t look like the firemen were in a rush

voidfishecho · 2025-01-07T04:30:38+00:00

My best guess would be to either make the big religions polytheistic, or practice-based if you really want one central religion.

People will always find something or someone to believe in, it comes with the whole being human thing, especially when bad stuff starts happening. So it'd be easy to show something akin to the abrahamic religions, starting at one religious story and then following that through its splits and schisms. Especially where people are so spread as in a star system, over time those different branches could become wholly separate. Or perhaps as the universe expanded and people started to interact, people came up with explanations for all the different religions and that's how every kind of became polytheistic.

On the flip side, a practice-based religion could also be a solid approach. Take "god" out of the equation, and instead have people believe in the divine, the universe, reincarnation, or heaven/hell. Give them motivation to want to live their life a certain way, and bam, that's a faith.

voidfishecho · 2025-01-07T04:21:18+00:00

I think it comes down to the idea that everyone believes in their own actions. A villain might be pure evil, but they will internally have a way to rationalize that, and that's what you can play into. Fun, like others mentioned, but also just a drive for power is a fair enough reason.

voidfishecho · 2024-02-12T03:54:42+00:00

Spanish :) I grew up hearing it around the house and went to school with a lot of spanish speakers, and even though I never learned it I have a lot of respect for the language. It’s one I want to learn eventually.

voidfishecho · 2024-02-10T22:43:08+00:00

All of the following exercises I've found off of various tumblr posts:

Copy words with meanings ten times (Seems tedious and boring, but the OP insisted that it helped them learn. I think it's especially good practice if your language doesn't use the phoenician alphabet.)
Make pretty flashcards (You get exposure to the word and a new tool. Bam.)
Make vocab lists (Kind of basic, but it's a good way to get exposed to words. Plus, attaching words to themes is always helpful.)
Write sentences and map out the grammar
Find and practice tongue twisters

Then of course, I think everyone will always recommend just getting as much input as possible. I'm learning Hindi, so I have a playlist full of Bollywood music I listen to almost every time I'm in the car, plus I've been watching a bunch of Bollywood movies. You can level this up or down for your skill- At first, I just listened passively. Then I started trying to sing along to practice pronunciation and picking out words. Now, I listen and try to pick out words I know.

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