Jon MacLeod wrote:
I would suggest putting words with easy/obvious picture representations in grade 1 (cat, dog, house, etc.) as well as attitudinals, words with fairly obvious rep. but non-object meanings in grade 2 (go, talk, etc.) as well as pro-sumti, purely abstract words in grade 5. This is a top of the head remark, so it's not very well thought out, but I thought it my help and I would /relly/ appreciate having a resource like that- especially if the LLG published it into a book I could carry with me. The big red one is nice if I need to grep how to construct a certain element of a sentence, but what I really need is a vocab learning tool that doesn't require a computer, seeing as how I don't have one, just computer access from my college.
If you go to the master gismu list http://www.lojban.org/publications/wordlists/gismu.txt Columns 159-160 are a code, either a letter and number or a letter only.If you sort the list on that code, the words will match my original grading of the words for the original draft textbook (which is not the version of the draft textbook that is online - the current 22 draft textbook lessons were 6 long lessons in the 1989 original). All of the words with a 1 were in lesson 1, those with a 2, in lesson 2 etc. I had only allocated words up to lesson 9, and the remainder have only a letter code, or are words that were added after the codes were assigned.
the letters attached to the lesson numbers, 1a, 1b, 1c etc group the words in each lesson according to some theme that was the basis for that lesson, e.g. 1a is colors, 1b grammar words like gismu and lujvo, 1c body parts, 1e spatial relationships, etc.
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