From lojbab@lojban.org Wed Feb 14 13:15:09 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojbab@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_3); 14 Feb 2001 21:14:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 68594 invoked from network); 14 Feb 2001 21:14:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 14 Feb 2001 21:14:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO stmpy-3.cais.net) (205.252.14.73) by mta2 with SMTP; 14 Feb 2001 21:14:20 -0000 Received: from bob.lojban.org (209-8-89-84.dynamic.cais.com [209.8.89.84]) by stmpy-3.cais.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f1ELEJc32767 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 16:14:19 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010214161238.00ad4100@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: vir1036/pop.cais.com@127.0.0.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 16:17:27 -0500 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Classes? In-Reply-To: <20010213193049.A15198@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" At 07:30 PM 02/13/2001 -0500, Robin Lee Powell wrote: >A co-worker just mentioned that he'd heard of 'study in a classroom with >like conversation excersizes and such' for lojban. Do any of you know >of such a thing? I've conducted a couple of Lojban classes over the years, and Athelstan conducted one before his accident. Mine used the draft textbook, which has exercises. Athelstan was more adept at winging it and coming up with an exercise on the fly. The main limitation in classroom work is lack of vocabulary. People's command of the grammar advances so much faster than their command of vocabulary that it is difficult to come up with interesting exercises that exercise both at an equal level. You get so you know so much grammar that you can express a lot of complexity, and yet have only 100 words that you know well enough to play with, many of which have no use for the grammar that you've learned. The result was that I decided to rewrite the draft textbook, but of course that stalled out somewhere in chapter 1. lojbab -- lojbab lojbab@lojban.org Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org