From phma@ixazon.dynip.com Sun May 30 15:50:50 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sun, 30 May 2004 15:50:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [208.150.110.21] (helo=blackcat.ixazon.lan) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.32) id 1BUZ8b-0008E8-Ps for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sun, 30 May 2004 15:50:43 -0700 Received: by blackcat.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 1001) id BEDD44B9F; Sun, 30 May 2004 22:49:27 +0000 (UTC) From: Pierre Abbat Organization: dis To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Learning Lojban Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 18:49:26 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200405301849.26311.phma@phma.hn.org> X-archive-position: 8011 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@phma.hn.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Sunday 30 May 2004 18:03, Roly Sookias/Roly Sukias wrote: > Hi. My name's Roly, I'm new here and I'm from near Oxford in England. I've > tried learning lojban with the lessons available, but i found it rather > hard to understand them, especially not knowing the first thing about > computer codes. Do you know of any lessons or anything that explain lojban > using english grammatical terms (or at least saying 'they don't have this > that or the other bit of grammar in lojban, but they use this method > instead'). I also find it difficult to remember what all the totally > unfamiliar new words are such as 'cmene' and the like, which are used > throughout the lesson to refer back to what you've learnt - i keep having > to look back to check what something means. Of course lojabn is going to be > a bit tricky compared to a euroclone language becuase it's so alien, but i > think it can probably be explained more like most langauges are. If there > are no such lessons, perhaps someone would be willing to act as my personal > online tutor?! :-) Thanks lots. All the best. Roly. I started one; it's at http://phma.hn.org/Language/lojban-intro.html . Let me know which of the topics to write about and I'll teach you. phma -- li fi'u vu'u fi'u fi'u du li pa