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

[Jack Wright <jackrw@gmail.com>]

coi rodo .e ki'e sai la .epkat

May I add my congratulations for the podcast - the first time I've heard spoken lojban.  What a good sound!

I thought the most effective part was the beginning, hearing "natural"
lojban spoken at a normal speed - even though I didn't understand it
all it gave me a good feel of the cadence.  I did pick up the
point of pronunciation (I'm British), but I still thought the language
sounded very elegant and clear - I think that can be resolved by
inviting contributions (as you have, epkat). 

If I may suggest for the future: I think we could have more
conversational lojban - perhaps a few sentences each time in the form
of a dialogue, presented bilingually.  So contributions could be
with people speaking as you have in the podcast, with snippets of
sentences, then repeated in lojban.  Then perhaps to repeat in
lojban without the English.  We could then go through the vocab,
perhaps without all the details of x1 etc., but emphasising the gismu
themselves (just like in German one would probably learn a verb first
time without the case that it governed - people can learn the rest in
their other studies)

mu'o mi'e djakis