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Re: [lojban] "Learning Lojban" Audio Tapes
At 07:39 AM 05/25/2001 -0700, Andrew Collins wrote:
My questions:
Do "Learning Lojban" audio tapes exist?
There exists a tape that LLG sells, which has some samples of
pronunciation, but there is nothing like a coordinated audio-based course
of the sort you can buy for other languages. People on the list do not
think all that much of it, and I don't blame them. It is a recording of a
list of words, and some snippets of prepared dialog that can be found in
the draft textbook lessons. We used multiple voices, but all of the
participants had a decidedly American accent that non-US people don't much
like.
If so, where can I purchase some of them?
From LLG (i.e order to me at the below address), $10.
If not, why not?
We haven't yet written a proper textbook for the language yet, and there is
no established pedagogy for teaching the language. Therefore it is hard to
know how to design an audio course. There are only a couple of people in
the group who know much about teaching languages (and a lot of us aren't
particularly good at learning them either).
As you can see from the ongoing discussion on the list, Nick Nicholas is in
the process of writing an introductory Lojban text. Not a full textbook of
the language, but a place to get started. If the lessons prove to be
effective in getting people started, someone will undoubted create some
downloadable audio files of the examples in that package, and we might
prepare a tape version as well, but we haven't discussed this yet. But an
integrated audio course is still a bit downstream.
But maybe your asking will inspire someone for the future.
lojbab
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