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From: Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>
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Subject: [lojban] jbopatfu needs help.
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 Content preview:  tl;dr: jbopatfu is stressed; skip down to the bullet points
    to see how you can help. For those of you who don't know: I'm raising twin
    daughters, and I am speaking Lojban to them almost exclusively (no-one else
    is). [...] 
 
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tl;dr: jbopatfu is stressed; skip down to the bullet points to see
how you can help.

For those of you who don't know: I'm raising twin daughters, and I
am speaking Lojban to them almost exclusively (no-one else is).

In the course of raising the jbocifnu, recently I feel like there's
this barrier between me and the next level of fluency, and the only
thing I can think of to fix it is listening.

In particular: it's too fucknig hard for me to learn words.
While it's not as easy as it was when I was a kid, I still can pick
up words very easily in English, Lojban is *much* harder.
The place structures only explains a small part of that.

The (comparatively) great effort involved in speaking Lojban and
learning vocab is starting to upset me; I expected to be past that
by now.

On top of that, my life has become *very* overwhelmingly busy; it's
been hard lately to just be calm about life in general.

It's very easy for me to look at my life and go "What would give me
a bunch more time?" and come back with "not speaking Lojban to my
children", but I don't want to go that route.

So, here's some things that might maybe help.  They're not
especially reasonble, but quite frankly, I feel like the community
owes me at this point.

0.  Be *gentle*.  I need people to gently, softly cajole me an a
lot of this stuff.  That means even though I asked you to bug me to
do X, I'm usually going to say no.  Be nice about it.

1.  I want to hear more of the language.  I think *listening* might
help me level up.  Make or find voice recordings.  Make it very very
easy for me by sending me simple links to MP3s (dropbox.com is good
for hosting this sort of thing, by the way) of Lojban speaking that
doesn't obviously suck; it doesn't have to be great, but it should
be longer than 5 minutes, please.  Collecting a bunch of short bits
together would be fine.

2.  I've fallen out of the habit of being involved in Lojban stuff,
and especially chat on a regular basis.  Come find me in #lojban and
try to engage me in conversation.

3.  Find me in #lojban and see if I'll voice chat.  If we do, be
prepared for me to go at my own pace.  Constantly repeating is very
tiring.

Feel free to make suggestions as to how you can help.

Thanks.

-Robin

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http://singinst.org/ :  Our last, best hope for a fantastic future.
.i ko na cpedu lo nu stidi vau loi jbopre .i danfu lu na go'i li'u .e
lu go'i li'u .i ji'a go'i lu na'e go'i li'u .e lu go'i na'i li'u .e
lu no'e go'i li'u .e lu to'e go'i li'u .e lu lo mamta be do cu sofybakni li'u

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