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

[Matt Arnold <matt.mattarn@gmail.com>]

> 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.

I'm not sure the jbo-->eng and eng-->jbo of the same word are
necessarily the same piece of information. For that matter, not all
pieces of knowledge associated with a given gismu are of equivalent
importance. I think it would be quite odd to learn the rafsi for word
#40 before I learn gismu #200. It would be interesting to try to decide
how much more often a word is used as a gismu than it is used in its
rafsi form. Perhaps some means to determine this could be devised.
-epkat