donkixotes

The default order in which topics are presented in the CLL, the comprehensive Lojban manual/textbook/guide, seems a bit illogical, when first encountered by a beginner. This sparked, in #lojban, a discussion about a more beginner-friendly order, which resembles:

• Chapter 1 (Legal stuff, skippable)
• Chapter 2

• Chapter 3
• Chapter 4

• Chapter 13.1-13.10
• Chapter 6 (beware of 6.12 (dotside), and 6.2-6.9 (xorlo))

• Chapter 7
• Chapter 5.1-5.7

• Chapter 17.1-17.12
• Chapter 19 (beware of 19.13 (erasure))

• Chapter 13.11-13.16
• Chapter 11

• Chapter 8
• Chapter 9

• Chapter 10
• Chapter 14

• Chapter 15
• Chapter 5.10-5.20

• Chapter 12
• Chapter 16 (Logical quantifiers, difficult material)

• Chapter 17.13-17.20
• Not at all necessary Chapter 18 (mekso - may be dropped from the language)

• Useful Chapter 20 (selma'o liste)
• Not for the eyes of all Chapter 21 (Formal grammars)

Points containing the mention beware or difficult should be read with a grain of salt; investing some time on Lojban's IRC will certainly clear things up, not to mention that Lojbanist irci give lessons in #ckule and (especially in the beginning to work on pronunciation) by means of Mumble, Ventrilo and Skype.