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[lojban-beginners] Re: learning lojban



>Neither of these are interactive, but they are more or less the  
>standard way to learn the language. A project called ICSL (Intensive  
>Course in Spoken Lojban) was working on making a more interactive  
>course based on conversations in comic strip format, but it's been  
>stalled since December or so.

It would be great to have a Pimsleur-style audio course.  One
of the existing courses could be simply translated into lojban
and released as mp3 on the web.  How hard could this be, I wonder...

I must say, I find the sounds I've heard so far rather uninspiring.
I don't know whether to chalk that up to poor speaking or poor-
sounding language, or maybe just internal resistance I need to get
over.  The process of taking phonemes from the World's languages
smacks bogus to me, but I'm not aware of any concrete model/example
of phoneme sets being fine-tuned in natural languages, so I can't
make much of a case yet.

I'm also a bit put out at the use of traditional punctuation marks
for something else.  I'm about to try and read about what that
something else is.

Thanks everyone for the pointers so far,

-Carl