Here's what this link is about:
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Salute,_Jonathan!
It's a story that uses the nature method (or direct method) to teach the language Occidental, otherwise and officially known as Interlingue. It's this language here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlingue
If you've never heard of this method, it's the one used in these books:
English, French, Italian, plus Hans Ørberg's Lingua Latina per se Illustrata, best explained here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oJctKy_r6s
Also most recently (just this month, I think) a book called Amikaro has been published that uses the same method for Esperanto. https://federicogobbo.name/amikaro/english/
There's apparently a Russian one out there somewhere too but not online.
It basically involves a really long story that starts out told with the simplest language you can imagine (Bill is a man. Is Bill a man? Yes, Bill is a man...) and adds a new word every 25 words or so, uses only the target language and images to tell the story, and then you do that for about 800 to 1000 pages. Because it only uses words you already know (and lots of repetition) to tell the story, you don't need a dictionary. Subjectively I think it's way better than Duolingo when learning a completely new language, it's just that these books take forever to put together. Also, the story has to be riveting. If it's 800 pages of "so-and-so makes some friends and learns the language and gets a job in the new country" then nobody is going to finish it.
For the Occidental book I have the whole story done (100,000+ words, about as long as a Harry Potter novel), and have so far added grammatical explanations and images to the first 51 chapters. Then once that's done for all 100 I'll go back in further sweeps to add more on pronunciation, exercises, and the like. So it's done, but it's going to continue to be more and more done. It's taken over two months so far and will probably take another two before I stop adding to and modifying it.
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