From - Fri Oct 18 13:01:58 1996 Reply-To: Chris A Bogart Date: Fri Oct 18 13:01:58 1996 Sender: Lojban list From: Chris A Bogart Subject: Re: A couple of questions... X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: John Cowan In-Reply-To: <199610180953.DAA07190@indra.com> X-UIDL: cbd94c9e0596923dd86a9153c00bb065 Status: U X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 1691 Message-ID: On Fri, 18 Oct 1996, William Westlake Jr. wrote: > I downloaded a version of LogFlash but i'm not sure it's current. Also, > I'm not sure where I should begin in a study of Lojban. Should I use > LogFlash to start getting a handle on some of the vocabulary or should I > concentrate on other more technical languages...Any suggestions? :-) This is what I would recommend: - There's some paper out there, I forget the name, that's a quick overview of the grammar, touching on a lot of different topics. Read that first. If you pay close attention to the examples you'll pick up a little vocab by osmosis. - Skim the reference grammar, or at least the chapters that look interesting. Come back and re-skim or read parts of it whenever you get curious about something. - Find some short, easy texts in Lojban (there are some in the textbook) and practice reading them -- at first you'll need to look up most of the words -- but that's a great way to learn vocabulary - Try translating English sentences into Lojban -- like some favorite quotations -- something difficult but interesting. Memorizing vocabulary is boring for me at least, and very difficult, but I can spend hours trying to translate something, and learn a lot more, and not be bored with Lojban at the end of it. Another thing that helped me was putting together a cheat sheet with the most important cmavo sorted, grouped, listed, and explained -- it made me think about how they all relate to each other, and of course it's been very useful since then. It's about 10 pages long, and *extremely* dog-eared now. Chris