From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed Feb 28 13:38:15 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:38:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HMWV5-0003fk-F5 for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:38:15 -0800 Received: from bender-mail.tigertech.net ([64.62.209.30]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HMWUw-0003fb-08 for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:38:15 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bender.tigertech.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDCBF7DC8 for ; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:38:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from Nietzsche.lumma.org (A17-206-16-99.apple.com [17.206.16.99]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by bender.tigertech.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FC537DF3 for ; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:37:58 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:37:56 -0800 To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org From: Carl Lumma Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: learning lojban In-Reply-To: References: <20070228053052.DB4437DAE@bender.tigertech.net> <20070228164932.1AF7A7DF4@bender.tigertech.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-Id: <20070228213758.9FC537DF3@bender.tigertech.net> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at tigertech.net X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on bender.tigertech.net X-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.8 tagged_above=-999.0 required=7.0 tests=FORGED_RCVD_HELO, MSGID_FROM_MTA_ID X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Score: -2.5 X-Spam-Score-Int: -24 X-Spam-Bar: -- X-archive-position: 4059 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: carl@lumma.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners >I ran across learnfast, which dropped the Pimsleur name, which >is exactly what I was looking for. I can get it to do much with >my version of Python. Then again the fundamental premise of >Pimsleur's is the hearing-speaking association, and since this >doesn't have any audio I'm not sure what the connection is >supposed to be. > >I think the Pimsleur method is less the hearing-speaking association and more the reteaching intervals. Supermemo does much the same thing. Hmm. According to Wikipedia, "organic learning" is one of the four pillars, along with "graduated interval recall". -Carl