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What genre of music would be appropriate for the theme music? I say,
pick a known song or two and create Lojban parodies. That way, anyone
can download the song, read the lyrics, and record their own version.

> As to the format I'd suggest,
> 
> theme music with lojban lyrics.
> Beginners guide. Ever heard the Pimsluer foreign language courses?
> Something like that may be suitable. Although a single lesson tends to
> run about half an hour in length.
> articles or short readings in lojban preferable with some of the
> vocabulary from the beginners section.
> news and up comming events in lojban.
> closing.
> 
> The idea is to move from intro/beginner to the more advance stuff to
> drag the listener deeper into an understanding of the language. As
> such, words introduced in earlier section should be echoed in later
> sections. I've place news last in the line up as reading newspapers  is
> usually considered an advance topic in most language courses I've seen
> due to the large number of shortenings, uncommon words, and
> colloquialisms the media tend to use.
> 
> Jeff.