[lojban-beginners] Re: vocabulary

[tijlan <picos.picos@gmail.com>]

There are some flash card solutions. I personally find jMemorize
greatly helpful.

http://www.lojban.com/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=jMemorize+instructions&bl

I began learning Lojban about a year and 8 months ago; within some 3
months I managed to memorize virtually all gismu for the first time,
except some mathematical ones like {picti}. After a few interval I
forgot many of them, but I continued plodding through the word list
with the software. By the last summer my competence had increased to
the point where I could read a long text without relying too much on
the dictionary (the word list) except for some shortened lujvo
(compound words).

This may also be helpful to the beginner:

http://jbotcan.org/clixra (flash cards with pictures, still incomplete though)

As to the cmavo, I have learned most of what I need of them as I
studied the CLL (Complete Lojban Language), since they, unlike gismu,
each have particular grammatical properties that are crucial in their
individual usage.

I find that you don't really need to memorize the exact place
structure for every word, especially for the purpose of reading. For
many of them are intuitive enough and can be figured out from the
context.

The attitudinals (the likes of {u'i}) have been not particularly easy
but enjoyable part for me. Some useful ones of these you can learn by,
like Elmo suggested, hanging in the IRC.


2008/10/30 Lakshmi Ravi Narayan <lakshmiravinarayan@gmail.com>:
> i am 3 days into learning lojban and have no problem with the grammar (i am
> a computer programmer and scripter of sorts) but i dont know how to proceed
> with learning words and their meanings. is there an effective way to gain
> vocabulary? what did other students find helpful?
> thanks,
> lakshmi ravi narayan
>