From sabren@manifestation.com Sun Sep 15 19:32:44 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: sabren@manifestation.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_1_1_3); 16 Sep 2002 02:32:44 -0000 Received: (qmail 58517 invoked from network); 16 Sep 2002 02:32:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m15.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 16 Sep 2002 02:32:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hydrogen.sabren.com) (209.61.157.143) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 16 Sep 2002 02:32:43 -0000 Received: from localhost (sabren@localhost) by hydrogen.sabren.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g8G2YvS23930 for ; Sun, 15 Sep 2002 22:34:57 -0400 Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 22:34:57 -0400 (EDT) X-X-Sender: sabren@hydrogen.sabren.com To: lojban list Subject: accellerated learning for lojban Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Michal Wallace X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=7894294 X-Yahoo-Profile: msabren coi rodo I've been playing around with a python game programming library, and made a new version of my learnfast program for lojban. It's still pretty rough, but I thought someone else might want to play around with it. Run it, and it will present english meanings (text on screen) followed by the corresponding lojban word (text on screen + wave file). The words repeat in a pattern designed to (hopefully) maximize recall. Also, slow classical music plays (a la superlearning). If the english word is green, it's a new word. Take note of the gismu that follows. If the english word is gray, it's a word that's already been shown. Try to remember the corresponding gismu (which will be shown 1 second later) The whole thing moves pretty fast, but the words are repeated 6 times each (spread out over time). It takes about 12-15 minutes to run through the whole lesson, which consists of the 64 most common lojban gismu. Eventually, this will all tie in with a logflash like program to test and enforce the words that have just been learned. Anyway, you can get it at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lojban/files/learnfast.zip It requires python and pygame: http://www.python.org/ http://www.pygame.org/ Let me know what you think. :) mi'e .maikl.