[lojban-beginners] Re: Test, and a request for help

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

On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 02:26:35PM -0400, Matt Arnold wrote:
> On 9/20/05, Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > I've got the huge input list of lojba/English words (thanks
> > > again Robin) but it's simply too big. ?I need to get an
> > > initial vocabulary. ?So what lojban words should a beginner
> > > learn first?
> > 
> > Most of my word lists are sorted by usage; why not just take the
> > first 200 or so?
>
> I suspect that Colin feels this would not have enough variety (at
> first) to combine to form useful sentences right from the
> beginning. There is no gismu until word number 14 and the next one
> is not until 43. He seems to have something Pimsleur-like in mind,
> involving whole sentences.

Ah.  Good point.

> This is why when I began committing cards in Supermemo I started
> out skipping ahead to commit 1 gismu for every 4th or 5th cmavo,
> and gradually increased it until-- now that I've memorized almost
> half the vocabulary-- I'm locking about 2 gismu for every 1 cmavo.

Good strategy.

-Robin

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