Lojban In General

Posted by cmacis on Sat 14 of Mar, 2009 18:00 GMT posts: 85

I hasten to add that I'm volunteering audio for this project. But nobody
wants to learn only my pronunciation! Please can others volunteer audio too?
Especially as my microphone is back at the shop.

mu'o mi'e cmacis

Posted by rlpowell on Sat 14 of Mar, 2009 21:37 GMT posts: 14214

On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 05:47:56PM +0000, Christopher Done wrote:
> I am doing a little experiment. I am writing a Lojban tutorial
> purely with pictures.

I've been calling for that for ... looks like at least 5 years.
Esperanto has a picture book for learning called Autodidakte, IIRC,
and I think we should have one too.

> If you want to contribute graphics/sound, reply or email me
> directly, or talk in #lojban. If you have ideas/constructive
> criticism, do the same.

As usual, I am happy to read anything anybody wants if they send me
the text via email.

-Robin

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2009/3/14 Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>

> On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 05:47:56PM +0000, Christopher Done wrote:
> > I am doing a little experiment. I am writing a Lojban tutorial
> > purely with pictures.
>
> I've been calling for that for ... looks like at least 5 years.
> Esperanto has a picture book for learning called Autodidakte, IIRC,
> and I think we should have one too.

I'm glad you already wanted this. Esperanto's picture book sounds like
another good resource for inspiration and ideas, thanks.

> > If you want to contribute graphics/sound, reply or email me
> > directly, or talk in #lojban. If you have ideas/constructive
> > criticism, do the same.
>
> As usual, I am happy to read anything anybody wants if they send me
> the text via email.

As James Riley is also up for this I suspect we'll be organising some texts
to be recorded, so I or James will forward them to you. I'll also contribute
to the recordings. I can probably get other people onboard.

Cheers,

Christopher

Posted by stevo on Sun 15 of Mar, 2009 04:30 GMT posts: 381

In a message dated 3/14/2009 19:05:34 Eastern Daylight Time,
chrisdone@googlemail.com writes:

>
> >> Esperanto has a picture book for learning called Autodidakte, IIRC,
>>
>
> I'm glad you already wanted this. Esperanto's picture book sounds like
> another good resource for inspiration and ideas, thanks.
>
>

I've had a book for many years called "English through Pictures". I bought
it for the preface, which is in many languages, but the book itself is pretty
good too.

stevo

Posted by seryf on Sun 15 of Mar, 2009 06:33 GMT posts: 71

all audio i have submitted is available on the multimedia page. with some editing, all of the attitudinals are available there too.

---Original Message---
From: james riley <jimr1603@gmail.com>
To: lojban-list@lojban.org
Sent: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 11:59 am
Subject: lojban Re: xractu - learn Lojban with pictures

I hasten to add that I'm volunteering audio for this project. But nobody wants to learn only my pronunciation! Please can others volunteer audio too? Especially as my microphone is back at the shop.

mu'o mi'e cmacis

Posted by seryf on Sun 15 of Mar, 2009 06:33 GMT posts: 71

i also can record any text sent this way, providing it is not obscenely long.

---Original Message---
From: Christopher Done <chrisdone@googlemail.com>
To: lojban-list@lojban.org
Sent: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 5:03 pm
Subject: lojban Re: xractu - learn Lojban with pictures

2009/3/14 Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>

On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 05:47:56PM +0000, Christopher Done wrote:

> I am doing a little experiment. I am writing a Lojban tutorial

> purely with pictures.

I've been calling for that for ... looks like at least 5 years. ?:)

Esperanto has a picture book for learning called Autodidakte, IIRC,

and I think we should have one too.

I'm glad you already wanted this. Esperanto's picture book sounds like another good resource for inspiration and ideas, thanks.
?

> If you want to contribute graphics/sound, reply or email me

> directly, or talk in #lojban. If you have ideas/constructive

> criticism, do the same.

As usual, I am happy to read anything anybody wants if they send me

the text via email.

As James Riley is also up for this I suspect we'll be organising some texts to be recorded, so I or James will forward them to you. I'll also contribute to the recordings. I can probably get other people onboard.

Cheers,

Christopher

2009/3/15 <MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com>

> I've had a book for many years called "English through Pictures". I bought
> it for the preface, which is in many languages, but the book itself is
> pretty good too.

Thanks! I found the web site: http://www.englishthroughpictures.com/

Looking at the picture and comparing to my own Lojban slides, it's
interesting to me how English forces explicit mention of present tense, and
with two different words; if I were learning, say, Arabic, with similar
pictures, such (crappy) grammatical nuances like that would trip (and
probably did when I tried Arabic on Rosetta Stone) me up. Also, I'm not even
sure the "she is here" one would make sense to me at all. I'd read it as "we
are here". Hm. i'e nai ru'e bu'o

Again, thanks! It's nice to see more and more evidence that this can be
effective.

2009/3/15 <thirderivative@aol.com>

> i also can record any text sent this way, providing it is not obscenely
> long.
>

Roger, it ought to be phrases which are mostly one to five words in length
for the most part.

Cheers,

Christopher