[lojban-beginners] Re: New beginner

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 12:21:04AM +1000, Tristan Mc Leay wrote:
> 
> mi'e tcristyn. 

I doubt you wanted the 'c' there.

> (Though I note in the archives that Nora says "mi'e noras" with no
> fullstop at the end---perhaps I haven't learnt enough.)

If you have spaces between words, the places to put the stops are easy
to determine, so people sometimes leave them out.

> This time I did pay it some attention and found it more interesting
> than I thought.

Yay1

> So I've kinda read a bit about Lojban now, and decided that it sounds
> interesting and worth learning. So far, I have read various webpages,
> the first part of the level 0 booklet, and I'm working through Chapter
> 6 (Time and Space) of Robin Turner and Nick Nicholas's Lojban For
> Beginners lessons. 

Make sure it's this version:

http://www.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/lojbanbrochure/

> At this stage, the most annoying thing to me was that everything I'd
> read started using words (_cmene_ etc.) repeatedly before introducing
> the pronunciation, so I had to take a stab at the pronunciation of <c>
> and I was wrong, but it stuck .ue.i'enai. I've just about got over
> that. 

Ouch.  Most of our introductory stuff should have pronounciation guides
early on; can you point to something in particular?

> Also, I forsee great difficulty with vocabulary, as it's usually the
> biggest and hardest part of any language. So could anyone help with a
> program that could randomly pop up some vocab (from a limited but
> increasing set) at random intervals on my Linux desktop?

Can't help you there, sorry.  There's an emacs-based flashcard program.
I myself use SuperMemo for PalmOS.

> So I suppose I come to Lojban with some knowledge of logic and
> computers and psychology and linguistics (which is kinda the
> definition of Cognitive Science if anyone here didn't know; I always
> found it quite convenient that someone invented a field that combines
> many of my interests).

Me too, but my school didn't start a degree in it until after I left.

> I'm not sure how active this board is so maybe I should cross-post to
> <lojban@yahoogroups.com>?

This list is generally for beginner's questions about Lojban.  Welcome.
More general discussion happens on the other list.

-Robin

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