Subject: Re: [lojban] Lojban in 12 weeks?

From: "poldenet" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 22:25:46 +0100

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I have been using the Logflash program from 17th June until 25th September =
up to the end of Gaining Control Mode. I used the program pretty much dail=
y, averaging about 45 minutes to an hour a day throughout this period of 10=
1 days. I therefore estimate that I have spent perhaps 76 to 101 hours usi=
ng Logflash. When I started out learning the Lojban gismu I set myself two=
targets: firstly to achieve 50% recognition and recall within 3 months, an=
d then to achieve 90% recognition and recall within 6 months. I tested mys=
elf on 17th September, by which time I had completed the New Words mode and=
was more than half way through the Gaining Control Mode. I scored 57% on =
recognition and 53% on recall, with no special preparation other than the L=
ogflash work I had been doing anyway.

Bob implied I think that the Under Control phase under Gaining Control mode=
were a kind of ongoing test of overall progress (apologies if this is not =
the case). However I didn't get that impression while doing the work, as i=
t seemed to me that the gismu given for recall in the Under Control phase w=
ere mostly from the most recent sessions, with only a handful from further =
back. So although I was regularly remembering 80% plus of the Under Contro=
l words, I think this gave a somewhat inflated impression of my real abilit=
y, as the test on 17th September indicated.=20

I have stopped using Logflash now, at least for the time being, as I want t=
o try other ways of consolidating the vocabulary, partly by actively using =
the language, and also learning the gismu by topic using the thesaurus file=
worked out by Yevgeni Sklyanin. In any case I will send the log files to =
Bob if they are useful.

Paul Dennett
Halifax, UK=20=20=20=20
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From: Robert LeChevalier=20
To: [email-masked]=20
Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 1:17 PM
Subject: Re: [lojban] Lojban in 12 weeks?

If anyone else has used LogFlash extensively (ideally having gone through=
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all the new words and preferably up to maintenance mode) and has not sent=
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me logs, the files are need are the two files labelled ".fl1" with your=20
name in the filename. Thorough analysis of the logs takes a while=20
including a software program that I don't remember how to use right now,=
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but the above numbers came from a quick scan (since I have a pretty good=
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idea what to look for).

lojbab

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