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[lojban-beginners] Re: Group learning, any advice
On Nov 20, 2006, at 7:14 PM, Pupeno wrote:
Hello,
Tomorrow at night a friend is coming home to start learning lojban
together. Any hints or advice on how to do it ? any particular
resource
that is useful for group (2) learning ?
Thanks.
--
Pupeno <pupeno@pupeno.com> (http://pupeno.com)
That sounds great! The best thing you can do when you learn a new
language is to have a partner. That way you can talk to each other.
coirodo.com is probably a good way to learn your first Lojban words.
I'd pull up What is Lojban, and page through it together. Don't worry
about reading all of it. Just look at what's interesting the first
time through. Then lojbanize your name.
Try to make some simple sentences like {mi nelci la lojban} and {do
tavla mi}.
Avoid the temptation to take a phrase in English and translate it
into Lojban more that once or twice, if you have to look up
everything. It's a good way to learn some new grammar, but what you
learn doesn't stick well unless you use it.
What else... Lojban for Beginners is another good source. And, I'll
plug my Lojban Reader, which goes along with LFB, too. Same with
these -- the first time through, just sort of skim to get a general
feeling. Come back later and try to memorize gismu.
What is Lojban? http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=What+is
+Lojban%3F%2C+The+Book&bl
Lojban for Beginners http://www.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/lojbanbrochure/
lessons/book1.html
Alex's Lojban Reader http://www-personal.umich.edu/~alexjm/reader0.html
Oh - one last idea. Pick out some additudinals and discursives from
LFB and use them in English speech later on. Some additudinals
are .ui (happiness) .ie (agreement) and .oi (complaint). coi (hello),
mo'u (end transmission/over), and co'o (goodbye) are some discursives.
Good luck!
mu'o mi'e .aleks.