Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-76.118.67.131-20140922181150/@comment-17114085-20140924142546

Kadilkhajiit wrote: No, you do have to learn from grey beards, you can't just learn a dead language with no translations without help. Besides we're talking about a war that takes place in the time of TLDB. There are four people who can shout and no one else, and we know that even knowing the language it takes years to learn to shout. We also know that with the excepption of the dragonborns non-Nords can't shout. Correction: 5 people, 6 counting the Dragonborn. Also there are dozens of dragons roaming Skyrim and Northern Tamriel during this time. As for non-Nords not being able to shot, that might or not be true. We don't know. Not everyone can learn the thu'um it takes natural affinity, hard work and dedication. But yeah, the only non-Nords that we know of that can shout were Dragonborns.

Another thing, it was never stated in what time period Tamriel is in during this war, you just assumed it is 'present' Tamriel.