On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 7:16 PM, Robin L= ee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
=

tl;dr: jbopatfu is stressed; skip down to the bullet points to see
how you can help.

For those of you who don't know: I'm raising twin daughters, and I<= br> am speaking Lojban to them almost exclusively (no-one else is).

In the course of raising the jbocifnu, recently I feel like there's
this barrier between me and the next level of fluency, and the only
thing I can think of to fix it is listening.

In particular: it's too fucknig hard for me to learn words.
While it's not as easy as it was when I was a kid, I still can pick
up words very easily in English, Lojban is *much* harder.
The place structures only explains a small part of that.

The (comparatively) great effort involved in speaking Lojban and
learning vocab is starting to upset me; I expected to be past that
by now.

On top of that, my life has become *very* overwhelmingly busy; it's
been hard lately to just be calm about life in general.

It's very easy for me to look at my life and go "What would give m= e
a bunch more time?" and come back with "not speaking Lojban to my=
children", but I don't want to go that route.

So, here's some things that might maybe help. =A0They're not
especially reasonble, but quite frankly, I feel like the community
owes me at this point.

0. =A0Be *gentle*. =A0I need people to gently, softly cajole me an a
lot of this stuff. =A0That means even though I asked you to bug me to
do X, I'm usually going to say no. =A0Be nice about it.

1. =A0I want to hear more of the language. =A0I think *listening* might
help me level up. =A0Make or find voice recordings. =A0Make it very very easy for me by sending me simple links to MP3s (dropbox.com is good
for hosting this sort of thing, by the way) of Lojban speaking that
doesn't obviously suck; it doesn't have to be great, but it should<= br> be longer than 5 minutes, please. =A0Collecting a bunch of short bits
together would be fine.

2. =A0I've fallen out of the habit of being involved in Lojban stuff, and especially chat on a regular basis. =A0Come find me in #lojban and
try to engage me in conversation.

3. =A0Find me in #lojban and see if I'll voice chat. =A0If we do, be prepared for me to go at my own pace. =A0Constantly repeating is very
tiring.

Feel free to make suggestions as to how you can help.

Is there a text-to-speech program for Lojban? It would allow= you to listen to stuff that is otherwise only in text form.=A0

stevo

Thanks.

-Robin

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