Re: Intro

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

la andreas.gaitas. cusku di'e

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> Hi everyone
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> My name is Andreia, I'm 22, from Portugal. Just stumbled onto Lojban while looking for online language courses... I rather like the Sapir-Whorf theory, even before I knew its name, so I'm just itching to learn Lojban... besides, I love learning languages.
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coi andreas. a?o mi?a pendyrai do .i a?o do ba lifri lenu do gleki je frili cilre la lojban. ru'a do du le pamoi porto lojbo
hello Andrea [hope] we make-feel-welcome you. [hope] you [future]experience the-event you happy and easy learn Lojban. [I postulate] you are the first Portuguese Lojbanist

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> Anyway, I don't have the book yet (and probably won't have for a while... $$$), but I do have the grammar.

Well, the online reference grammar is pretty much the same as the book. You might be better off starting with the draft textbook, which is also available from the Lojban website - I would advise doing at least the first ten lessons from the textbook, then
going to whichever parts of the grammar interest you most. Don't feel you have to read the grammar in whole chapters - I tend to read the parts of a chapter that are most basic first, then go back for more advanced stuff later (which is why my own grammar is
a little, er, strange sometimes).

The nice thing about Lojban grammar is that you can use as little or as much of it as you like. For example, I can simply say

mi bajra
I run/ran/will run/am running

or

mi pu bajra
I ran

or even

mi puzu ze'a di'i bajra
A long time ago, for a while, I ran regularly.

> Stupid questions are on the way, so bear with me. :)
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mi'a nelci le prenu poi preti le bebna preti ku mu'i lenu lenu danfu le bebna preti ku cu sidju ma'a lenu xamjimpe le bangu
we like (the person who ask the silly question) with-motivation {the-event-of (the-event-of answer the silly question) help we-and-you (the-event-of well-understand the language)}

Now everyone else rip my grammar to shreds! ;-)

co'o mi'e robin.