From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Thu May 03 01:45:31 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Thu, 03 May 2007 01:45:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HjWwM-00067s-FG for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Thu, 03 May 2007 01:45:30 -0700 Received: from elvis.mu.org ([192.203.228.196] ident=postfix) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HjWwI-00067j-SL for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Thu, 03 May 2007 01:45:30 -0700 Received: from [64.142.77.89] (64-142-77-89.dsl.static.sonic.net [64.142.77.89]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D2AC1A4D87 for ; Thu, 3 May 2007 01:46:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4639A132.5010300@mu.org> Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 01:45:38 -0700 From: ScottL User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] New member and question(s) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -2.6 X-Spam-Score-Int: -25 X-Spam-Bar: -- I just posted this to the lojban live journal community and thought it was appropriate here as well: X-archive-position: 4448 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: scott@mu.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners I have recently had to go on longterm disability from work and will be moving back to where I grew up in the Midwest. One of the things I have decided to try and do with my newly found abundance of free time is learn lojban (or at least play with it for a while). I have read about half of "What is lojban?" and have read parts of some online resources. I am what you might call an ultra newbie. I currently speak English and Romanian and have studied French but I don't remember it much. I have however read a lot about languages and linguistics in general and have amassed a lot of "trivia" type knowledge about the subjects. My question is this: Are there many (on this list?) lojbanists in the (mid)Missouri area? If I can't find someone to study with locally I am tempted to simply post some sort of ads or flyers around the University of Missouri. I am looking not sure how much time I will be spending with this "hobby" I guess it depends on how much I like it once I get started. That I suspect will depend on a lot of things about the language that I have not yet learned (like how difficult translating things are due to words that simply do not yet exist in lojban). I am also interested in any advice that people have for me in how to approach learning the language. I am a very verbal learner I learned Romanian primarily by immersion and speaking it then followed that up with book studying and I can now speak Romanian well enough that at times I can pass as a native speaker (though one with a very limited vocabulary that makes me look not very intelligent). As such I would be interested in any early efforts anyone has made for audio/video learning aids for lojban. If there are not I think a short video covering the phonetics and pronunciation would be a good place for the community to start. Regards, SKL