From lojban@cuvmb.bitnet Sun Jun 02 23:30:08 1996 Received: from punt4.demon.co.uk by stryx.demon.co.uk with SMTP id AA11953 ; Sun, 02 Jun 96 23:30:04 BST Received: from punt-4.mail.demon.net by mailstore for ia@stryx.demon.co.uk id 833581011:26800:0; Fri, 31 May 96 23:16:51 BST Received: from cunyvm.cuny.edu ([128.228.1.2]) by punt-4.mail.demon.net id aa26280; 31 May 96 23:16 +0100 Received: from CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU by CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R3) with BSMTP id 5557; Fri, 31 May 96 18:15:57 EDT Received: from CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU by CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Mailer R2.07) with BSMTP id 0044; Fri, 31 May 96 18:15:39 EDT Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 13:45:43 -0500 Reply-To: Scott Brickner Sender: Lojban list From: Scott Brickner Subject: Re: Help a newbie get started! X-To: Chris Bogart X-cc: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: Multiple recipients of list LOJBAN In-Reply-To: (Your message of Tue, 28 May 1996 13:50:09 MDT.) <9605281950.AA05279@pocc.gpsmet.ucar.edu> Message-ID: <833580972.26280.0@cunyvm.cuny.edu> Status: R Chris Bogart writes: >> I have decided to focus on learning the gismu at first. Logflash is nice, >> but I wanted to make some tapes and/or flashcards that I could use anytime I >> wanted and not just when I am at my computer. Does anyone have any advice on >> how to make these learning aides? > >Go to a printer or copy shop where they make business cards, and buy a bunch >of blank ones, or maybe you can even get printed ones that someone didn't >pick up or that had an error on them?? Maybe you could write out 10 or 20 >cards at a time, study them, and keep adding to your stack of cards gradually >as you study. I might suggest learning the cmavo first, instead. I found it much easier to understand sentences quickly when the words I didn't know were content words, rather than structure words. I think the phenomenon is similar in any language. Note that "nonsense" texts like "Jabberwocky" don't fool with the structure words, and one quickly gets the sense of what the sentence means even though the content words (brillig, slithy, etc.) are unknown. Compare: 'Twas brillig and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe. with: Smar bright oog zva little flowers blee dance oog frolic bno zva field.