Re: [lojban] Re: smart.fm

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

On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 03:31:14PM -0600, Jon Top Hat Jones wrote:
> I have come to the conclusion that it would be beneficial to this
> project if there was some sort of central online repository for
> the lojban audio re: the Smart.fm lessons, the reason being that
> it would be a simple matter for those of us who are putting the
> entries in the lessons would be able to download the audio for the
> entry from said repository.

Is there some reason not to just make a page on the main web site
and attach them?

General commentary on the project as a whole:

I find myself looking for a web service for flashcard stuff, and
this seems decent enough.  There is something I'm wondering about
how you went about it, though:

Why not get all the words up there even if you don't have audio for
them?  Can't you attach audio later?  That way people who don't need
pronounciation help can just use them.  I don't think that having
sound for every single gismu is really all that helpful, anyways;
having sound for sentences is something else entirely, of course.

As it is, it's basically completely useless for me to keep
up-to-date on my Lojban memorization, which is sad.

It seems to me that the right thing to do is to make cards for all
the base words, then make sentences that use many of them and make
sound for those (say, phrasebook type stuff), *then* make sounds for
individual words.

-Robin

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