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la .pycyn. cu cusku di'e
> I don't know how to break it to you, but valsi pumping is a remarkably
> labor intensive process that has virtually no direct relation to
> language proficiency.  Some master memorizers can barely stumble through
> a simple sentence; some people who can read Lojban at something like
> first (or at least very familiar second) language level cannot pass any
> of the flash card test at all.  I don't know what your correlation is,
> but I hope it is high enough that you can justify the time you have
> spent.  Theory, at least, suggest that that time would have been better
> spent (assuming that easy real-time functioning in Lojban is your goal)
> in reading Lojban text -- with a dictionary at hand (well, on the
> screen) at first but less and less so as you went along (but always
> there, since you will run into the rare word or place occasionally, just
> like L1). Keep up the good work, however you pursue it.

+1

More reading and conversing, less flashcards, is my suggestion.

mi'e la selpa'i mu'o

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