Learning
Speak, Read, Write
Every lesson gives the spoken form, the IPA and the Sethun spelling.
Lesson One — velmont
velmont
/ˈvelmont/
Well be the House — the standing greeting
Spoken
Two beats, stress on the first: VEL-mont. The final t is fully released; nothing is silent in Luadan.
Written
Six letters of the Sethun: vor · eth · lun · mor · orn · nen · tal.
Cultural
Offered to anyone crossing your threshold, including a stranger and including an enemy under truce.
Historical
Cut above the pass gate before the first charter; the oldest attested phrase.
Conversation
— velmont. — velmont, kinvar. þu-in hearnd hain-a þar. (Welcome; the hearth is open to you, and I say so as witness.)
Drill
Say it fifty times at three speeds, then write it in the Sethun from memory.
The shape of every lesson
Spoken pronunciation
IPA guide
Sethun writing
Cultural meaning
Historical context
Example conversation
Memory exercise
Listening drill
Reading passage
Writing task
A1 · Beginner — Stone and Breath
Grammar
The 30 letters and their sounds. SOV order. Present tense -a. Evidence particle þar. Pronouns an, þu, ven.
Vocabulary
300 words: kin, greeting, numbers to one hundred, food, weather, the nine principles.
Cultural knowledge
Why speech and writing are taught together from the first hour.
Fluency assessment
Introduce yourself, your House and your craft for ninety seconds.
A2 · Elementary — The Measured Day
Grammar
Past -en and future -ug. Number suffixes. Object and possessive cases. Negation ne-.
Vocabulary
600 more: tools, market, travel, the body, time and season, colours.
Cultural knowledge
The eight-day week, market conduct, how a debt is spoken.
Fluency assessment
Recount a day's work in three tenses; conduct a market negotiation.
B1 · Intermediate — The Honest Joint
Grammar
Full aspect stack. Conditional -va. Relative clauses. Compound formation up to three roots.
Vocabulary
Technical stems: engineering, agriculture, navigation, basic law.
Cultural knowledge
Craft apprenticeship, the maker's mark, failure spoken honestly.
Fluency assessment
Explain a mechanism from drawing to failure mode.
B2 · Upper Intermediate — The Weight of a Name
Grammar
Formal register in full. Reported speech and the sag/vag distinction. Legal clause numbering.
Vocabulary
Government, justice, trade contracts, astronomy, mathematics.
Cultural knowledge
Council procedure, formal undertakings, correct use of evidence particles.
Fluency assessment
Argue a case before a mock council; write a numbered contract in Sethun.
C1 · Advanced — Cut and Answer
Grammar
Binding register -ha. Karnvers verse form. Archaic legal forms. Coinage procedure.
Vocabulary
Philosophy, historiography, higher science, rhetoric.
Cultural knowledge
Record-keeping and the rewriting of entries as evidence weakens.
Fluency assessment
Compose and perform a karnvers.
C2 · Master — Keeper of the Measure
Grammar
Full command of all registers; ability to teach and to adjudicate usage.
Vocabulary
Unlimited, with demonstrated ability to coin transparent new roots.
Cultural knowledge
Custodianship: recording, teaching, and defending the language's consistency.
Fluency assessment
Submit three accepted coinages with roots, IPA and Sethun spelling; teach a Lesson One cohort.