All characters know how to speak Common. A dwarf, elf, gnome, half-elf, half-orc, or halfling also speaks a racial language, as appropriate. A character who has an Intelligence bonus at 1st level speaks other languages as well, one extra language per point of Intelligence bonus as a starting character.

That's the way I do it. Common + racial languages + INT bonus languages.

Such as:
Arkady - Common, Celestial (racial), Draconic, Elven (intelligence)

or Leeri, for another example. Common and then Draconic, Elven, and an as-of-yet-unlearned language (who needs anything other than Draconic and Elven, ever?)

There is no education system in FR, and why would kobolds teach their language to any random human that asked? This is one of those Amia things. That's rather off-topic, though, since it was a reply at a personal jab/question.

how do custom text macro's work? its sort of a mission to say hello in slyvan lol, would be nice to have a couple of words like hello and bye ready.

There is no education system in FR, and why would kobolds teach their language to any random human that asked? This is one of those Amia things. That's rather off-topic, though, since it was a reply at a personal jab/question.

knowing a language 'because its useful' is rather... lame.

this, draconic should NOT be an easy language to learn. It should also, imo, not be just rped as known unless you have something in your history to indicate it would be learned or have actually spent extensive time rping it.

knowing a language 'because its useful' is rather... lame.

Why? It happens all the time. I learned Spanish because it was useful. And not from an "educational system," either; I obtained the resources on my own, and asked my Spanish-speaking co-workers (who were the reason learning the language was useful in the first place) to talk to me in Spanish.

asked my Spanish-speaking co-worke

any point I made above

Most magical script is written in a mixture of Draonic and Infernal. Draconic symbols resemble a mix between old celt runes and kanji if they got drunk and had a baby.

Elven mages tend to write their spells and research in old elven, which is the language of the grey elves

Thayvians write all their spells and research in old empire script. This is incredibly hard to read or decipher.

Other than on Amia, not many adventurers have kobold co-workers. Learning an entire language takes time and dedication, as well. Lame or not, it takes away from the exotic aspect that it's openly chooseable as a language - or it would be, if more than half of the population of Amia wasn't planetouched in some way.

sure but you don't suddenly gain a language ICly because your int went up.

If you have a +4 Int you can choose equally many language skills, if your Int mod raises later you can learn new languages with proper training, and as someone once worded it "Not say you learned dwarven in one night by drinking with one.".

I don't really see the problem there.

Bonus languages: A wizard may substitute Draconic for one of the bonus languages available to the character because of her race. Many ancient tomes of magic are written in Draconic, and apprentice wizards often learn it as part of their studies.

1 Language/Int modifier doesn't apply on Amia, period. It has never been a rule nor an official recommendation (though individual DMs may encourage it). Common sense and good taste takes priority, but those who lack any can use it as a guideline.

What I'm trying to do is gauge the popular consensus, so as to avoid the sort of OOC bicker-bait I stumbled into... I'm not asking whether talking in other languages is legit; I'm completely willing to accept that it is.

There's just some bizarre, counter-intuitive subset of Amians who want everyone to be level 1 human mud farmers, 8 in every stat, who never leave their hometown and don't know what magic is.

Other than on Amia, not many adventurers have kobold co-workers. Learning an entire language takes time and dedication, as well. Lame or not, it takes away from the exotic aspect that it's openly chooseable as a language - or it would be, if more than half of the population of Amia wasn't planetouched in some way.

I can't respond to any refutations to my last post, since no reasoned ones were made.

I met a dwarf who was speaking actual dwarvern, it was very well done RP and I could understand -some- of it oocly, and icly at the time, if I knew dwarven ICly I would have "tell" "can you tell me what your saying clearly my character knows dwarvern ^_^ " no big deal at all, though dwarvern isn't as confusing as drow.

Someone actually bothered to learn it? I'm scared enough by Opustus' manhours spent learning broad Scots, let alone someone going for the fictional language.

Someone actually bothered to learn it? I'm scared enough by Opustus' manhours spent learning broad Scots, let alone someone going for the fictional language.

In all honesty, its very hard to ignore someone speaking another language when in reality its just <Draconic> Hey, that guy looks weak, lets mug him <Draconic>

Exactly, there is no good way to keep people from metagaming languages. I dont feel comfortable typing in another language around people who obviously didnt know it until something that relates to them comes up.

I don't think we should add ways of excluding other players.

The DMFI Wand Package contains language widgets and scripts to implement additional/custom languages. And honestly I'd be quite happy to see a translation system in place and can speak quite well of experience with the DMFI system, both from the perspective of a developer and a player.