[lojban-beginners] Re: My First Lojban Words 1.4

[m.kornig@sondal.net]

Selon Vid Sintef <picos.picos@gmail.com>:

> On 5/29/07, m.kornig@sondal.net <m.kornig@sondal.net> wrote:
> >
> > > Learning words from dictionaries should actually be effective because
> > that
> > > is what gives you mostly reliable definitions and exemplary usages.
> >
> > If you have a good dictionary at hand, yes. But not for
> > beginners, I think.
>
>
> Martin,
> did you mean a good dictionary is *not* for beginners?
> Reliable definitions, exemplary usages... they aren't also for beginners?

I meant that learning vocab from dictionaries is not
very efficient (for beginners). Just looking up a new word
in a dictionary doesn't mean that you have learnt it.

I think you also have to say it, write it, use it, search
for it, recognize it, repeat it, hear it, combine it with
others, spell it, etc. It's these activities that make you
"learn" a new word. It's the number of encounters and
the variety and "attractiveness" of activities that counts.

Well, you can think of "looking up a word in a dictionary"
as an activity, too. But just doing this is not very
efficient, I believe. Actually, for most people this is
quite dull, I'm afraid.