[lojban-beginners] Re: software question

["Mike Zink" <zuwiki@gmail.com>]

I've used Rosetta Stone for learning both German and a bit of Japanese (3000+ characters to be considered barely literate proved a bit much though :P), so if I understand correctly the idea is to associate words, phrases, and eventually constructs with concepts rather than with strict definitions. This is called implicit learning, and there is an article about this on the Lojban wiki: http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=Implicit+learning&bl=y

The software linked to in that article, Parallel 2, uses translated sentences rather than pictures*, which may not be as effective or interesting, but still may serve you better than flashcard applications. However, with only 861 sentences, I don't know how complete or comprehensive it will be.

* You might be interested in clixra: http://jbotcan.org/clixra

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 5:05 PM, Chris Capel <pdf23ds@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 19:00, M CHILDS <m_chi919@msn.com> wrote:
> I feel a little lost/without grounding trying to learn the language from the
> documents available, and I haven't seen any software that I feel comfortable
> using. Is there software similar to Rosetta Stone for Lojban? If so, is it
> free?
>
> If not, where can I offer to create such an application, as I would need
> someone who knows the language well to create the conceptual piece while I
> can develop the application?

This query might be a bit more appropriate on the main list.

The main software being used currently is jboski/jbofi'e for
translation, and Supermemo or other flash card programs for memorizing
vocabulary. I'm not too familiar with Rosetta stone, so I couldn't
tell you how they differ. I'm currently working on an application
similar to jboski, but more Web 2.0ish, and based on Robin Lee
Powell's work on the camxes parser. It will try to offer integrated
parsing and word lookup, and eventually possibly even lessons. It's
called Lojgloss and written in C#. Source is available using Bazaar at
http://pdf23ds.net/bzr. You can google all those others, I'm sure.

Chris Capel
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