[lojban-beginners] Re: Starting to learn... but how?

["james riley" <jimr1603@gmail.com>]

Remember how much time it took to learn your first language using that method? If you can expose yourself to a new language completely for 2 or 3 years then you might be able to speak it fluently, but until I can afford that break I'll stick to my current methods.

mu'o mi'e cmacis

On 15/05/07, Dominic van Berkel <nazgjunk@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tuesday 15 May 2007 19:16, m.kornig@sondal.net wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I believe most people start learning a language by
> listening. Listening to others, recognizing and
> repeating certain sounds: names, other isolated words,
> maybe short phrases. Then, at the same time or
> sometime later (it doesn't really matter), they find
> out about the meaning: which object or person the
> sound refers to, in which situation it may be employed,
> etc.
>
> This seems to be the way kids learn their mother
> tongue. According to my experience this method
> works equally well for adults.

Not quite as well.  If I remember correctly kids are able to do this without
pointers from another language until the age of 11. Adults really need
guidance in a language they already know.

Dominic van Berkel / pocev

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