[lojban] flashcards?

["Chris Capel" <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

Is it best to recommend flash cards for the learning of vocabulary?
What about the various "immersion" or "absorption" techniques that are
supposed to more efficiently use the memory? (I think John Clifford,
perhaps, mentioned something about these techniques in a past
discussion.) My fear is that flashcards are very inefficient compared
to some optimal methods of quick, medium-retention learning.

For instance, the SuperMemo site says that people not using some sort
of spaced-review system will have a retention of about 80% for new
material that they easily comprehend and can fit into an existing
framework of knowledge. That's without any review at all. SuperMemo
provides an extra 15%, at what seems to me to be a huge cost, with a
daily, *boring* review process that doesn't even provide any practice
with *reading* Lojban text.

Surely we can do better. Maybe something like a very slowly graded
series of stories that gradually introduce more and more Lojban
vocabulary? (They can be mixed with with the first language, and then
switch over to all simple Lojban, or perhaps start out illustrated,
and then introduce more and more advanced Lojban.) That's just one
wild idea.

Chris Capel
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