1. You can practice the language with hundreds of people on social media, in bite-sized chunks.
  2. You can make up your own words in the language, using established roots and affixes.
  3. Many of the speakers are multilingual—they may even speak one or two other conlangs. They’re definitely of the conlangers’ tribe.
  4. While there aren’t many blogs in the language, you can find a rich collection of stories translated from the public domain, and even stories written only in the language.
  5. People sing in the language! Enough so there is a semiannual Top 50 of songs, reflecting their shifting popularity.
  6. Some people promote the language for its own sake.
  7. You can read a broad but shallow version of Wikipedia in the language.
  8. You can learn the language on the app of your choice!
  9. It uses its own weird take on the Latin alphabet.
  10. Sure, the phonology is basically that of Polish, but an artlang is gonna artlang…

Links: 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.

June 20 marked my fourth anniversary of starting to learn the language.

Photo Credit: The conlang flag, released to the public domain by the Language Creation Society.