Welcome to our 'Made-up Language Learning'-study!

We are trying to understand what factors make it easier or more difficult to learn to read and write. Because adults already know how to read and write in one or several languages, we made up a language of our own to study how people do it.

• First, you will hear the words of our language.
• Then you will see some invented letters and hear their sounds.
• Then you will see words written using these letters and will learn to read them out loud. This is when we need to record you using your microphone.
• Next, you will hear words and will practise writing them by clicking the letters on a virtual keyboard on the screen.
• At the end, you will read and write the words again and we will see what you have learned.

You will be trained to read and write in our made-up language over 6 training blocks.

On average, we estimate this task to take around 1hr 30mins to complete. Feel free to take breaks between sections.

Please make sure that you are in a quiet environment prior to taking part in this study, as we need good quality voice recordings.

For this, we would ask you to have a microphone and speakers/headphones ready and plugged in. Please check they are working before taking part. This study is not compatible with iPhones and iPads, as well as the Safari browser and Internet Explorer, because of restrictions on audio recording. Please use the latest version of Google Chrome for best results.

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You are not allowed to write things down on paper as that is considered cheating! You shouldn't try it as it is very easy for us to tell when someone cheats.