Re: [lojban] Re: Project: Intensive Course of Spoken Lojban

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 06:25:21AM +0300, Yanis Batura wrote:
> From: Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>
>  
> > I speak it pretty comfortably.  I've been trying to do regular
> > phone chats (Story Time With Uncle Robin).  Of course, I'm
> > moving right now, but I'll start them up again.  Have you come
> > to any voice chats at all?
> 
> In my post, I meant fluent speaking at advanced level, i. e.
> speaking something comparable in complexity to usual written texts
> in Lojban, without mental translation from English to Lojban.

We simply don't have the vocabulary built up for that; lack of
mental translation isn't the issue.

> I've heard the recording of the first Story Time. 

In which I was speaking as slowly as possible because people kept
telling me to slow down.

-Robin

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