Subject: pedagogy and lojban

From: "G. Dyke" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 11:19:49 +0200

Hi

I'm currently teaching Lojban to a Frenchman who knows very little English
(and has no interest in learning it - English, not Lojban). I'd set out with
the idea of translating the lessons, but I don't quite like the way in which
they are presented (in addition to which, I find them a bit long for the
purposes of teaching one person).

I was wondering whether anyone had any opinions about the way to introduce
various concepts. (My ambition is that the textbook be baselined from a
translation of my French textbook zo'o). There is particularly the problem
that introducing small things like no "la,doi" in names etc is a pain. Do I
add a "read more here" at the end of each chapter or return to each subject
at a later time(achapter dealing with morphology for instance). So here is
an outline of what I have and how I think it should proceed.

- pronunciation
- three categories of lojban words
- names (practice in phonological adaptation)

- gismu as an application of brivla
- bridi structure (put the {cu} in immediately)
- introducing things that can act like sumti :
-- mi
-- do
-- ti
-- ta
-- tu
-- zo'e
-- ko
- getting rid of unnecessary zo'e
- explain elision of cu
- add {la cmen.} to sumti

- explain le as extracting x1 place of selbri
- complete cu explanation along with ku
- introduce se te etc as means of extracting other places of selbri
- use them in normal bridi
- introduce fa fe fi

- attitudinals
- discursives

- events as means to fill in the sturcture of sutra

- numbers
- lo, finish explanation of la and le

- ...
[Yet to be thought out]
- ...

ma se jinvi do

mu'omi'e greg
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