Re: [lojban-beginners] Right Place?

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Sunday, August 26, 2012 15:57:10 Sarah H wrote:
> I am new and I am very enthusiastic about learning Lojban. However, I feel
> a little lost. I've been trying to learn the basics on my own, but I have
> about a million questions. Could someone point me in the right direction to
> an expert that wants to teach or a beginner that wants to learn Lojban
> together? Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but I'm having difficulty
> finding audio clips of someone singing the alphabet, counting, telling the
> time, asking 'How do you say this in Lojban', etc...I thought that was the
> way one generally learned a language.
> Anyone want to share with me how they started speaking Lojban?
> -Sarah

I normally attack a new language by reading a book in it along with the same 
book in a language I already know. This wasn't available when I started, but 
there is now a translation of Alice. I think what I did was read the grammar 
and the word lists and start composing sentences.

> PS: I would love to 'Lojbanise' my name. Sarah means princess or high
> ranking female.

I'd go with "saras" or "sarat" (I add a "t" to feminine names in Afro-Asiatic 
languages, so Eve is xavat, and Sarah is sarat, in the Bible). As to your 
email address, "ciftoldi" means "baby butterfly", and the Caterpillar in Alice 
is so called.

Pierre
-- 
sei do'anai mi'a djuno puze'e noroi nalselganse srera

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