[lojban-beginners] Re: podcast (was Newbie Intro)

[Christopher Zervic <zervic@gmail.com>]

I actually posess the entire Spanish Pimsleur series lessons 1-90. You
can probably find this or one of the other ones at Your Local Public
Library™. 

Pimsleur uses three voices, a native man, a native woman and a
narrator. Having the man and woman are somewhat necessary to straighten
out gender issues. The principles are anticipation and repitition, each
lesson introduces circa 10 new concepts, and hammers them home. There
is also a reading section (which for a language posessing perfect
orthographic mapping would be hardly necessary).

A typical script would be something in he beginning would be

Narrator: Let's say you meet a woman on the street. Say "Excuse me." Listen and repeat.
Man: Perdón. (Pause) dón. (Pause) dón. (Pause) dón. (Pause) Perdón. (Pause) Perdón.
Narrator:  Say "Excuse me" 
Man: Perdón. (Pause) Perdón. 
Narrator: Ask her if she speaks English. Listen and repeat.
Man: ¿Habla Inglés? (Pause) ¿Habla Inglés?
Narrator: Do you speak English?
Man: ¿Habla Inglés? (Pause) glés (Pause) glés (Pause) Inglés (Pause) Inglés. 
Narrator: Do you speak English?

Man: ¿Habla Inglés?

Little by little they introduce more phrases and each time  Later on, it might sound like this:
Narrator: Have you seen Maria?
Man: Escucha y repita: ¿He visto María?  (Pause) visto (Pause) He visto 
Narrator: Have you seen Maria?

Man: ¿He visto María?

and on and on...

I don't know how well this would work with jbo, because Lojban as a
spoken language appears to be still a shade or two underripe.

On 9/16/05, Matt Arnold <matt.mattarn@gmail.com> wrote:

On 9/15/05, jm <jeffm@ghostgun.com > wrote:

Beginners guide. Ever heard the Pimsluer foreign language courses?
Something like that may be suitable. Although a single lesson tends to
run about half an hour in length.

I'm very interested in the Pimsleur method but I have no idea what it's like. Do you have such a recording? Can you point me to another podcast that uses this technique? Or can you describe it?
-epkat

-- 
Christopher Zervic, Esq.