[lojban-beginners] Re: Learn to speak Lojban?

[Dominic van Berkel <nazgjunk@gmail.com>]

On Monday 14 May 2007 06:28, m.kornig@sondal.net wrote:
> Selon Elmo Todurov <todurov@gmail.com>:
> > ...But it's way easier if you can learn together
> > with somebody and in general, practice oral communications. Skype and
> > other VoIP ways are easy to use and pretty useful for that.
>
> Skype is telephone communication, isn't it? I'm
> sorry Elmo, but I doubt that this would help much
> since:
>
> a/ There are apparently only very few speakers.
As far as I know there are quite some people who can speak lojban on a very 
rudimentary level (probably the A0 you mentioned earlier). If necessary it's 
of course possible to switch to english for a bit to be able to continue the 
talk.

> b/ Not all of them may be willing to speak
>    to a stranger over the phone.
I've never met anyone who speaks lojban (and hardly anyone who even knew what 
it is before I told them), but there are many people in the lojban community 
(primarily the IRC part of it) who I no longen consider complete strangers.

> c/ Also, there will probably always be much more
>    learners than teachers (who actually can help
>    or teach in a reasonable way).
As explained at (a) that's not necessarily a problem. A rudimentary level of 
spoken Lojban can be achieved on your own, after which there is (limited) 
possibility to speak to others.

> c/ Due to different time zones around the world,
>    it may be hard to find a partner who is available
>    at a given time, i.e. not sleeping, working,
>    eating, doing something else...
Yes :( Timezones will always be evil.

> d/ It's difficult to create a common environment
>    over the phone which I think is important for
>    beginners. For instance, it's difficult to point
>    at things...
I'm afraid that's quite true, yes.

> Martin

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