[lojban-beginners] Re: Continuing with beginner vocabulary tools ...

[Colin Wright <colin.wright@denbridgemarine.com>]

>> What should we use as question/answer pairs for "cusku"?
>> Clearly we want
>>     lojban: cusku, english: ?
>>     english: express, lojban: ?
>> But do we also want
>>     rafsi: cus, english: ?
>>     rafsi: sku, english: ?
>>     rafsi: cus, lojban: ?
>>     rafsi: sku, lojban: ?
>>
>> Do we also want
>>     lojban: cusku x4, english: ?
>>
>> What should the questions be in this case to ensure that the
>> user remembers *all* of the necessary information.

> I consider the place structures to be one level of necessity
> behind the gloss word, and the rafsi to be a level behind that.
>
> ... when I finish committing all the gismu to memory, ...
> new flashcards for each gismu with {se} {te} {ve} and {xe} in front ...
> When I've gone through all 3,000 or so of those, I'll start creating
> flashcards to memorize rafsi.
>
> Considering that you want a reduced set of flashcards, you definitely
> don't want to demand that rafsi be memorized.

My thought has been that one card giving only english->lojban reviewed every 
day is about the same work as two cards, one for each direction, reviewed 
every other day.  Each card has the same idea but in a different direction, 
so I wonder if "two cards half as often" is a better solution.

It seems to me that memorising every gismu before starting on rafsi is 
suboptimal.  It implies that you memorise seldom used gismu before memorising 
frequently used rafsi.

Perhaps for each gismu there should be 10 cards, and that the initial review 
period is set to 5 days for each card.  The semantic area is then reviewed 
every 12 hours or so, (growing as you succeed) but you get all directions of 
content.


k.