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Okay, now we're up to nine people in this group. Cool. Is
there anyone here who has already gone through the lessons
posted on Rick's web-site? I've gone through to lesson 8,
acquiring a vocabulary of maybe 250 words, but that was a
couple of months ago, so now I'm back at lesson 4 with 100+
words. The cool thing about Katanda, though, is that its
morphemes are so powerful that words are easy to learn,
remember, and derive, so vocab won't be that difficult to learn, if
time is given to it. I'm already using a Mac OS X flashcard
program to drill myself in general vocabulary as well as
classifiers, and affixes, but it's taking awhile to type out all of the
cards.
What are other people doing? What are some tricks or
resources we might be able to share to make learning this, and
other languages easier? How much effort are individual people
going to put into learning it?
As far as LexSem goes, I read it maybe a month ago,
understood most of it, but the whole "A/P-s" type notation for
verbs and their derivations still takes some effort to understand.
Perhaps that should be another set of flashcards...if anyone has
Mac OS X, I'd be happy to share those flashcard sets as they are
developed.
Like I've said, I'm new to this stuff, so I'm waiting for other
people to put out suggestions for how we might move forward.
Take care, all,
Jeremy