From jay.kominek@colorado.edu Tue Jul 17 10:21:31 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: kominek@ucsub.colorado.edu X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 17 Jul 2001 17:21:31 -0000 Received: (qmail 57735 invoked from network); 17 Jul 2001 17:21:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 17 Jul 2001 17:21:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ucsub.colorado.edu) (128.138.129.12) by mta2 with SMTP; 17 Jul 2001 17:21:30 -0000 Received: from ucsub.colorado.edu (kominek@ucsub.colorado.edu [128.138.129.12]) by ucsub.colorado.edu (8.11.2/8.11.2/ITS-5.0/student) with ESMTP id f6HHLUd00396 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 11:21:30 -0600 (MDT) Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 11:21:30 -0600 (MDT) To: Subject: Re: [lojban] Looking down: executive summary? In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010716225659.00c87b60@127.0.0.1> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Jay Kominek On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Bob LeChevalier (lojbab) wrote: > At which point, I throw the question open to *all* who have read some or > all of Nick's lessons, with especial focus on the opinions of newer > Lojbanists: is this the type of book YOU need or would like to read as a > beginner in the language, or do we need something more basic, to which this > book would be the follow-on. I think the lessons are almost perfect, in both execution and coverage. (The only thing I could imagine doing would be to shorten them by a few chapters, taking out a bit of the more advanced content, and using that as the beginning of a second set of advanced lessons. As it is, the gap between the lessons and the reference grammar might be the teeniest smidgen too steep) As some are now mentioning, a work book and all the other various multimedia learning aids which are popular in language education would be nice to go along with it, but obviously, resources are limited. The only way I could see a more beginning text written is if it were targetted at children and heavily illustrated, etc. - Jay Kominek