Re: [lojban] Re: i want my brain cells back!

[And Rosta <arosta@uclan.ac.uk>]

>>> Invent Yourself <xod@sixgirls.org> 11/20/01 05:59pm >>>
#On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, And Rosta wrote:
#> aulun:
#> #> I sympathize. I've always disliked learning other languages because it
#> #really does feel as though one's brain is being clogged up -- as if the
#> #knowledge
#> #> is using limited disk quota, as it were.
#> #
#> #As for me, I disagree: you just have let the new language come in slowly
#> #(finally getting the special taste of each word - i.e. having a
#> #specific "picture" when thinking/pronouncing it.
#>
#> Yes, but this is not very practical if you're aiming for communicative
#> competence, or for the ability to read texts in the language.
#
#You're saying the learning a language slowly isn't a good way to learn it?

It's the easiest way, but the longer you take to learn it, the longer it takes for you to have useful command of it, for any criteria of usefulness.

#> #(tatelebn, farvos hayst men "lokshn" lokshn? -  They look like lokshn,
#> #smell like lokshn, taste like lokshn... No, farvos zol men zey nisht
#> #haysn lokshn?!)
#>
#> What is this language? Some weird dialect of German?
#
#Yes, it's Yiddish.

I had no idea Yiddish was still spoken. Do you speak Yiddish?

--And.