From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Sep 20 11:35:05 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 20 Sep 2005 11:35:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1EHmxN-0005Xs-02 for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Tue, 20 Sep 2005 11:35:05 -0700 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1EHmxM-0005Xl-N7 for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Tue, 20 Sep 2005 11:35:04 -0700 Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 11:35:04 -0700 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Test, and a request for help Message-ID: <20050920183504.GG1901@chain.digitalkingdom.org> References: <200509201603.56667.colin.wright@denbridgemarine.com> <20050920181530.GD1901@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 2181 X-Approved-By: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org 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: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 02:26:35PM -0400, Matt Arnold wrote: > On 9/20/05, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > > > > I've got the huge input list of lojba/English words (thanks > > > again Robin) but it's simply too big. ?I need to get an > > > initial vocabulary. ?So what lojban words should a beginner > > > learn first? > > > > Most of my word lists are sorted by usage; why not just take the > > first 200 or so? > > I suspect that Colin feels this would not have enough variety (at > first) to combine to form useful sentences right from the > beginning. There is no gismu until word number 14 and the next one > is not until 43. He seems to have something Pimsleur-like in mind, > involving whole sentences. Ah. Good point. > This is why when I began committing cards in Supermemo I started > out skipping ahead to commit 1 gismu for every 4th or 5th cmavo, > and gradually increased it until-- now that I've memorized almost > half the vocabulary-- I'm locking about 2 gismu for every 1 cmavo. Good strategy. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/