Re: [lojban] Learning Lojban

[Robin Turner <robin@Bilkent.EDU.TR>]

Roly Sookias/Roly Sukias wrote:
> Hi. My name's Roly, I'm new here and I'm from near Oxford in England. I've tried 
> learning lojban with the lessons available, but i found it rather hard to understand 
> them, especially not knowing the first thing about computer codes. Do you know of 
> any lessons or anything that explain lojban using english grammatical terms (or at 
> least saying 'they don't have this that or the other bit of grammar in lojban, but they 
> use this method instead').

When I started writing the Lojban beginners' lessons, one of the 
comments that prompted me was a request for teaching materials which did 
_not_ have too many English grammatical terms in them (although a number 
crept in as I proceded).  I think on the whole it's a good idea to avoid 
thinking in terms of English grammar as far as possible, as it can cause 
problems later on. Lojban does not have nouns, verbs etc., and I am 
convinced that our endless debates about Lojban articles are partly 
caused by the fact that we still think of them as articles.

robin.tr

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Robin Turner
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Bilkent Universitesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey

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