Re: [lojban] Re: flashcards?

["Chris Capel" <pdf23ds@gmail.com>]

On 6/21/06, Alex Martini <alexjm@umich.edu> wrote:
> However, if you want to learn Lojban quickly, daily flash card
> sessions are the way to go.

See, I'm not sure this is true. If you practice daily by reading
Lojban text, or doing other sorts of exercises, and make sure that
you're exposed to a good round selection of vocabulary, it's my
intuition that you will pick up vocabulary more quickly than if you do
flashcards or logflash or Supermemo. And I actually used Supermemo
with Lojban for about a month. My progress just felt slow, compared to
what might be possible with other techniques.

Now, maybe flashcards are fine once you already know all the basics,
to help you finish out learning all of the cmavo and gismu. Or maybe
flashcards really are pretty efficient, just really boring. But they
didn't feel efficient.

> If you practice regularly with the flash
> cards, eventually you should learn them instead of just having them
> memorized. At least, I assume so -- I've never drilled regularly with
> flash cards.

If you use Supermemo, after a year of practicing all of the basic
wordlist words, you should have something in the area of a 90%+
lifetime retention.

Chris Capel
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