From xod@sixgirls.org Fri Aug 10 18:38:55 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: xod@reva.sixgirls.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_1); 11 Aug 2001 01:38:55 -0000 Received: (qmail 47127 invoked from network); 11 Aug 2001 01:38:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 11 Aug 2001 01:38:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO reva.sixgirls.org) (64.152.7.13) by mta3 with SMTP; 11 Aug 2001 01:38:53 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by reva.sixgirls.org (8.11.3/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f7B1cqB21890 for ; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 21:38:52 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 21:38:52 -0400 (EDT) To: Subject: Re: [lojban] New to lojban, any suggestions? In-Reply-To: <9l1op2+k2ts@eGroups.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Invent Yourself X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 9418 Welcome! On Fri, 10 Aug 2001 anarcholojban@yahoo.com wrote: > Hello all, > > For the last two months have been joyfully reading over the > lojban materials that are available over the internet (including the > pretty tengwar script) and I've been preparing myself for actual, > systematic study of the language. But, at the same time, I've also > been fooling around with Esperanto, so I have a few questions to help > me to decide which constructed language to buckle down with for > awhile: > > Can anyone share there stories of learning Lojban, how far they are > at, and how they enjoy it? > > Does any one have any good suggestions for how best to study it? > I've already gone through most of the basic grammar stuff, it's more > an issue of learning vocabulary. Some people find Logflash very useful. Do IRC with a dictionary window open. If you let us (me) know when you will be on, we (I) can make a special effort to get there at the same time. The 2 channels we use are usually dead, but this is how you can avoid that. > Does anyone know how to get up-to-date lessons and documents, since > the official webpage hasn't been updated in a year? Roll around the Lojban webring and visit all the sites. The Lojban Wiki is updated daily. The most timely information is here on this mailing list & on that Wiki. > What is the state of Lojbanistan? How many people, and fluent > speakers, are people happy speaking it? As far as I know, there are probably a dozen who can hold a halting verbal conversation in it. Maybe a dozen more can manage to read and write it & are learning steadily, and perhaps another dozen can barely read or write but love to discuss it endlessly. > Thank you so much for working so hard on such a neat project! > > Jeremy Louzao ki'u ma le si'o na'e jecta lojbo kei cu smuni le do cmene? ----- "I have never been active in politics or in any act against occupation, but the way the soldiers killed Mizyed has filled me with hatred and anger. Now I'm ready to carry out a suicide attack inside Israel," one of the witnesses said.