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

[mls1@rice.edu]

I'm finding the IRC helpful. Using words helps me remember them better. I still
use the translator jboski most of the time, but there are starting to be things
I almost know what it says before I put it through that. And there are
wordlists and jbovlaste which can be used to find words. I think the hardest
part is thinking up conversation topics when the conversation kind of dies out.
Most people seem to be good at being nice when they correct mistakes.

mu'omi'e .selskazgik.


Quoting 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
> >
> > --
> > "Bi-la Kaifa"
> > "Pure Vernunft darf niemals siegen" -- Tocotronic
> > www.nazgjunk.nl - Poetry&Blog
> >
> >
> >
> >
>