acually my friend and I both put a 1pt into Old Euridian and mine got better
just by attempting to speak it.
I got the message
Your Language skil has improved.

----- Original Message -----
From: Mathieu Guillaume <mat@...>
To: <eq_wizards@onelist.com>
Sent: Monday, April 26, 1999 10:20 AM
Subject: [eq_wizards] Re: Languages

> From: Mathieu Guillaume <mat@...>
>
>
> On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, Stefan Raets wrote:
> > About the language thing: you're right, but if you only have a few
> > points in the language, I don't think people will be able to
> > understand you. I think it's the EQ equivalent of speaking broken
> > English - the chance of being misunderstood is bigger if your language
> > skill is very low. Just a conjecture , of course.
> > My friends have started practicing languages during my increasingly
> > longer meditations. Just start chattering away in your race language,
> > and in a few minutes you will see some gain.
>
> My theory on this is you can only teach others up to your level in the
> language, or parhaps a bit less (seems logical that you can not teach them
> to speak better than you can). That's too bad, I'd have loved raising my
> Old Erudian just talking with someone who also only put 1 point in it :)
>
> Do you get one new language every two levels to train with, or is this
> random ? Or perhaps it depends on what critters you encounter ?
> I wanna learn griffin :)
>
> Ramagh - level 10 (and raising !) wizard - Fenin Ro.
>
>
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