From jewel@pixie.co.za Tue Sep 05 15:14:53 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3761 invoked from network); 5 Sep 2000 22:14:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m1.onelist.org with QMQP; 5 Sep 2000 22:14:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cpt-mailhost2.mweb.co.za) (196.2.48.239) by mta1 with SMTP; 5 Sep 2000 22:14:52 -0000 Received: from pta-dial-196-31-186-159.mweb.co.za by cpt-mailhost2.mweb.co.za (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.01.05.12.18.p9) with ESMTP id <0G0F0029NPSNGN@cpt-mailhost2.mweb.co.za> for lojban@egroups.com; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 00:14:49 +0200 (GMT-2) Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 22:21:14 -0200 (GMT+2) Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: learning lojban [2] In-reply-to: <8p2ie4+j5gd@eGroups.com> X-Sender: jewel@svetlana.mweb.co.za To: Garrett Jones Cc: lojban@egroups.com Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: John Leuner X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 4255 > > > Is that learning 600 new words a day or recognizing the words you > > > already knew? > > > > No! Just recognition testing. It means I test my recognition (Lojban > -> > > english) on 600 words. > > > > Since I've been through the whole set I 'know' them all. (More > accurately > > 'am familiar'). > > I've been doing it manually: i copy down about 75 words each day while > i'm at work with internet access, then when i go home i memorize them > (both ways), write the words really small on a piece of paper to > review later, and the next day do it again. I'm up to over 800 words > now. I hope to be "familiar" with them all by next monday or tuesday. > Then i will start applying my knowledge by using lojban :) I recommend that at some stage you use logflash, especially if you can type reasonably fast. It allows you to run through lots of words really fast, and you can't cheat. I don't know how to explain it, but when I study stuff I find that forcing myself to write it down really helps with learning. The same goes for typing in your answer when using logflash. Admittedly at university I often just read works briefly before an exam and that's enough, but since I intend to remember lojban for a long time I feel it's better to exercise the whole visual-hand-coordination system. Switching topics: It always amused me that in letters and emails people will signoff with something like: Bye, John or Bye John where it was obvious that the writer was signing his name at the bottom and not saying "Bye John!". I'm glad lojban doesn't have this kind of potential ambiguity co'o mi'e la djon.