From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sun Mar 15 03:54:21 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sun, 15 Mar 2009 03:54:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Linz2-0003AD-W1 for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Sun, 15 Mar 2009 03:54:21 -0700 Received: from mail-ew0-f173.google.com ([209.85.219.173]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Linyz-00039w-SM for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sun, 15 Mar 2009 03:54:20 -0700 Received: by ewy21 with SMTP id 21so3299785ewy.34 for ; Sun, 15 Mar 2009 03:54:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:reply-to:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=nZSYga87GOzS3mdgIefr+ZhbMotQI7FrVnwspUL10r8=; b=KYXdBMn/Zh+XFQh+q1FMngkfoGgP157UpqzRb4MwCU89a60KoP8HpiGTHxCAdOgQME k1ker8CgpKXvqL0WdTmUBRV1GSkJauB0F5hxD3sOL30HBaZYyWVGaHgOd2ZfpqWdyBJE RIHoIbj/67yDruScAeDO6eeRrzMOqtFLN9vG8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:reply-to:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:content-type; b=k/NkAyWq3X1QXe6XXez1WCTrIANKUdcR1KSYCsXOo9LWrXzjEnoR3R3ZcBirukZ9tD nMgiRSUob5x5BPm5W4oDr4XMrlFXnTlY78YUq97brDFL4D56pQBBb3bngURk39VpLz4Z MX8vzJTadgLT6ukpdAYzUx5MU1q9c76PD/TOo= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.0.73 with SMTP id 51mr1338470wea.52.1237114449840; Sun, 15 Mar 2009 03:54:09 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 10:54:09 +0000 Message-ID: <7f55268a0903150354m7c38f477sf4cae541c7200cb4@mail.gmail.com> Subject: [lojban] Re: xractu - learn Lojban with pictures From: Christopher Done To: lojban-list@lojban.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0016367fa166544b7904652627d1 X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 15377 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: chrisdone@googlemail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list --0016367fa166544b7904652627d1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 2009/3/15 > I've had a book for many years called "English through Pictures". I bought > it for the preface, which is in many languages, but the book itself is > pretty good too. Thanks! I found the web site: http://www.englishthroughpictures.com/ Looking at the picture and comparing to my own Lojban slides, it's interesting to me how English forces explicit mention of present tense, and with two different words; if I were learning, say, Arabic, with similar pictures, such (crappy) grammatical nuances like that would trip (and probably did when I tried Arabic on Rosetta Stone) me up. Also, I'm not even sure the "she is here" one would make sense to me at all. I'd read it as "we are here". Hm. i'e nai ru'e bu'o Again, thanks! It's nice to see more and more evidence that this can be effective. 2009/3/15 > i also can record any text sent this way, providing it is not obscenely > long. > Roger, it ought to be phrases which are mostly one to five words in length for the most part. Cheers, Christopher --0016367fa166544b7904652627d1 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
2009/3/15 <MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com>
I've h= ad a book for many years called "English through Pictures". =C2= =A0I bought it for the preface, which is in many languages, but the book it= self is pretty good too.
=C2=A0
Thanks!=C2=A0 I found the web site: http://www.englishthroughpictures.com/

Looking at the picture and comparing to my own Lojban slides, it&#= 39;s interesting to me how English forces explicit mention of present tense= , and with two different words; if I were learning, say, Arabic, with simil= ar pictures, such (crappy) grammatical nuances like that would trip (and pr= obably did when I tried Arabic on Rosetta Stone) me up. Also, I'm not e= ven sure the "she is here" one would make sense to me at all. I&#= 39;d read it as "we are here". Hm. i'e nai ru'e bu'o<= br>
Again, thanks! It's nice to see more and more evidence that this ca= n be effective.

2009/3/15 <thirderivative@aol.com>
i also can record any tex= t sent this way, providing it is not obscenely long.

Roger, it ought to be phrases which are mostly one to five words in = length for the most part.

Cheers,

Christopher
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