Carl Lumma wrote:
What I was trying to say (and apparently didn't express well) was that, in an audio CD course, it would be easier to learn the Lojbanterminology a little at a time after teaching some phrases and vocabulary.What I was trying to say is that I'd rather not learn the grammar at all -- I'd just like to learn to speak it. That's the real test of a language anyway. All of you who are interested in testing the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis can't hope to get any data before people are speaking it fluently.
I'm sympathetic to this, but I think a conlang is different from a natural lang in a practical sense. Lojban is no one's "native" language, and no one learns it as a first language in infancy. (So far...) It might be possible to learn a language as an adult using "pre- linguistic" techniques, but I've never heard of it being done in a pure sense. Hal