Learning Languages

Just because a character is learning a language doesn't mean you need to dump a bunch of information at the reader. By 'information' I mean the endless words that are not native to the language the story is in.

I think this is especially true for fantasy authors who may create their own.

Some authors are masters of creating languages, like J.R.R. Tolkien. We're not all linguistic gurus, though, and we shouldn't subject our readers to random strings of letters.

Not everyone loves Star Trek...