From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Fri Sep 16 10:54:17 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Fri, 16 Sep 2005 10:54:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1EGKPh-0006OW-6F for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Fri, 16 Sep 2005 10:54:17 -0700 Received: from zproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.162.207]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1EGKPd-0006OI-Sq for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Fri, 16 Sep 2005 10:54:16 -0700 Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id s1so155976nze for ; Fri, 16 Sep 2005 10:54:09 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=j6IWqBUg4yW0F3mMlTtmCg1BdbdJXwm/fYVSNBt6LjEhlId5IMpGe5cR8nenICHIGR+CEwXHYJtVAxibm5bi4WrtLtt+L222v87hRfDhgcL+NJjAUSlCATqJmh3Lz5AZvMABZsUOUJpNeUbHxsMRbFnw1QwIpPUVw/Iu/OxsByo= Received: by 10.54.5.73 with SMTP id 73mr410412wre; Fri, 16 Sep 2005 10:54:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.140.6 with HTTP; Fri, 16 Sep 2005 10:54:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 13:54:09 -0400 From: Matt Arnold To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: cpSPAM podcast (was Newbie Intro) In-Reply-To: <8f2fd4aa050915193928594e98@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_12193_28283359.1126893249427" References: <8f2fd4aa050915193928594e98@mail.gmail.com> X-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) X-archive-position: 2099 X-Approved-By: matt.mattarn@gmail.com X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-original-sender: matt.mattarn@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners ------=_Part_12193_28283359.1126893249427 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline This is a good idea and it would be a welcome segment of the show. But it's= =20 not a theme. For the time being, I'm using a clip of music from the=20 Precursors project to open the show.=20 http://www.medievalfuture.com/precursors/main.php Yesterday I e-mailed them= =20 and received their kind permission. I'm looking forward in the future to=20 including lots of music that's more Lojban-specific, but for the first=20 episode this will do. -epkat On 9/15/05, Brandon Wirick wrote: >=20 > 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. >=20 > > 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. >=20 >=20 >=20 > ------=_Part_12193_28283359.1126893249427 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline This is a good idea and it would be a welcome segment of the show. But it's not a theme. For the time being, I'm using a clip of music from the Precursors project to open the show. http://www.me= dievalfuture.com/precursors/main.php Yesterday I e-mailed them and received their kind permission. I'm looking forward in the future to including lots of music that's more Lojban-specific, but for the first episode this will do.
-epkat

On 9/15/05, Brandon Wirick <bwirick@calpoly.edu> wrote:
What genre of music would be appropriate for the theme music? I say,
pic= k a known song or two and create Lojban parodies. That way, anyone
can d= ownload 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 c= ourses?
> Something like that may be suitable. Although a single less= on tends to
> run about half an hour in length.
> articles or short readin= gs in lojban preferable with some of the
> vocabulary from the beginn= ers section.
> news and up comming events in lojban.
> closing.
>
> The idea is to move from intro/beginner to the more advanc= e stuff to
> drag the listener deeper into an understanding of the la= nguage. As
> such, words introduced in earlier section should be echo= ed in later
> sections. I've place news last in the line up as reading newspaper= s  is
> usually considered an advance topic in most languag= e courses I've seen
> due to the large number of shortenings, uncommo= n words, and
> colloquialisms the media tend to use.
>
> Jeff.



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