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Re: [lojban-beginners] Where to start?

On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 4:13 PM, TheLugal <thelugal@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi!
I have been interested in lojban for a while, but just now decided to
actually start learning it.
problem is, I don't know where I should start. So if anyone could've
give me a start in the right direction, I would be very grateful.
   ~ TheLugal.

Here's a few links to get you started. I put a star in front of the ones that I recommend you start with:

* http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=Learning - Contains most if not all resources for learning the language.

http://smart.fm/goals/search?autodetected=lojban&keyword=&language=jbo - All the Smart.fm goals. (Smart.fm is a flashcard learning program - great for vocab.)

* http://smart.fm/goals/268251 - All the gismu (root words) of Lojban, with full place structure, such as "bacru    x1 utters x2"

http://smart.fm/goals/279583 - All the individual places for each gismu, such as "lo bacru    an utterer" "lo se bacru    an utterance"

http://smart.fm/goals/266809 - Both of the above two combined into one giant lesson.

http://smart.fm/goals/292653 - All the cmavo, not including combinations, such as ".ui     happiness (attitudinal)"

* http://smart.fm/goals/284287 - All the cmavo in the goal above, plus the more common combinations, such as ".uinai     unhappiness (attitudinal)"

http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=The+Complete+Lojban+Language - A link to order the print book "The Complete Lojban Language", which describes the grammar of Lojban pretty much in it's entirety. A bit outdated, as there have been a few changes, but nothing horribly important- the biggest one is, we use lo a lot more than le nowadays, because of xorlo. Currently in the process of being updated for a new, more current edition.

http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=The+Lojban+Reference+Grammar - An online version of the CLL, and slightly more outdated, but still good.

http://www.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/lojbanbrochure/lessons/book1.html - "Lojban for Beginners", the first book specifically geared towards teaching new people Lojban. Also a bit outdated thanks to xorlo.

* https://wave.google.com/wave/waveref/googlewave.com/w+iDtofbn8C - The Lojban Google Wave, a much more current document, meant to replace the "Lojban for Beginners" book. Also available as a plain web page, http://jbotcan.org/wave_lesson/old.html

Also, there's the Lojban Beginners group, which you've already found, which is a great place to ask questions about basically anything related to Lojban, and the IRC channel, #lojban, on freenode, where you can go to talk about or in Lojban, and where our current Lojban instructors (the ones who made the Wave), are pretty much always lurking.

Welcome to Lojbanistan!

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mu'o mi'e .aionys.

.i.a'o.e'e ko cmima le bende pe lo pilno be denpa bu .i doi luk. mi patfu do zo'o
(Come to the Dot Side! Luke, I am your father. :D )

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