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Brun Ugle
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Message 89 of 902

05 December 2012 at 2:56pm | IP Logged

Solfrid Cristin wrote:

mrwarper wrote:

I'd like to propose one new thing: liaison / exchange / 'supervisor' members for TAC Teams.

As we all know here, it can be extremely beneficial to have the help of native or otherwise knowledgeable speakers of the languages we study. Why not share that as well, especially when it shjould be all the more beneficial for those who intend to boost their studies by enrolling in the TACs, and we have plenty of those people right here at HTLAL?

I'd propose that natives or sufficiently advanced speakers who are not actively studying their target languages anymore can enroll in TAC teams to help out the studying members, or otherwise add to the fun, drift their teams more towards TL and away from English-only communication, etc. :)

We've had some real Russian speakers in Team Sputnik (Russian Team for TAC '12) Skype sessions and God saw it was good. I think it would be even better if this becomes more the rule than it is the exception, just not constrained to Skype (which most teams don't seem to do anyway) but generalized to any team activities.

To preach by the example, I offer myself as such liaison member for any Spanish Team that may be formed or teams that have Spanish as one of their TLs. If this is approved / considered a good idea, I'll update my post with links to such teams when it happens.

This is a great idea! In one of the organisations I work with, this is called a Godfather, and he steps in with good advice and support whenever needed. Since the Scandinavian team seems to consist of mainly Norwegian students, I'll offer my help to them. I have always wanted to be a fairy Godmother :-)

I had already been thinking about that myself, but mostly in terms of teams where people were studying each other's languages. However, the Godfather (sounds a little scary) idea would be great. Anyone who wants to volunteer for any of the teams is welcome.

So mrwarper, I can put you down for the Romance team. And Cristina, I will put you down for the Scandinavian team.

These will show in my next update.
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Brun Ugle
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Message 90 of 902

05 December 2012 at 2:57pm | IP Logged

tarvos wrote:

Haha, if people ever need a Dutch supervisor, I can handle that. I suppose that's the
only language I can do. Apart from English.

So far there is only one person learning Dutch (on the Germanic team), but it's early days yet.
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Brun Ugle
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Message 91 of 902

05 December 2012 at 3:01pm | IP Logged

At present the Russian team and the Romance team are neck and neck with 10 members each.
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Tecktight
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Message 92 of 902

05 December 2012 at 3:12pm | IP Logged

Languages: Russian and German
Teams: Definitely the Russian team, and I'd like to get on the Germanic team, if they'd have me, as well.

I'm raising a glass in hopes that I can persevere through the 2013 TAC with more dedication and discipline, and
thereby prove that I can knock off my previous wishy-washiness.
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Serpent
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Message 93 of 902

05 December 2012 at 3:43pm | IP Logged

Brun Ugle wrote:

Serpent wrote:

Brun Ugle wrote:

Slavic/Romance
..., Chung ()

Impossible...

Hm maybe I should join the Scandinavian team as well? Probably my only chance to be Julie's teammate:D (if you want to be on the Slavic/Romance team with French/Russian/(Polish) you'd be sooooo welcome ♥♥♥)

Does this mean Chung is on the wrong team? I was a little confused. Chung seems to be studying ALL languages.

He even considers Romanian a fairly boring language compared to the Uralic ones. So it doesn't matter that he has both French and Ukrainian/Polish/what else on his list, I'd be happy to see him in the team but I can't see that happening.

Supervisors are a fantastic idea! I don't think I have the energy for team sputnik but I'd love to be one for the Uralic+Slavic team:)
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Dagane
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Message 94 of 902

05 December 2012 at 4:35pm | IP Logged

I'm definitely into the Germanic team. I really want to study German and it's becoming sure that I'll start learning Dutch next February. I'm improving my English as well so... yeah, Germanic team rules ;).

However, I'm not sure about being into the Romance languages team. It could be, though I need to think through it. It would be great if someone wants to study Galician. Also, if there're many people studying Spanish, I could help them somehow.
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Brun Ugle
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Message 95 of 902

05 December 2012 at 4:43pm | IP Logged

Tecktight:
I've got you down for Russian and German.

Dagane:
You are on the Germanic team and I will leave you with a question mark as far as the Romance team goes until we see if anyone else studies Galician. I doubt that anyone does though. I don't think I've heard of anyone.

Chung:
I haven't set up an Uralic team yet as no one else has expressed an interest, so I will set Uralic in the "other" category for now until we find some more members.
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Chung
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Message 96 of 902

05 December 2012 at 5:27pm | IP Logged

Serpent wrote:

Brun Ugle wrote:

Serpent wrote:

Brun Ugle wrote:

Slavic/Romance
..., Chung ()

Does this mean Chung is on the wrong team? I was a little confused. Chung seems to be studying ALL languages.

I was indeed surprised to see myself on a tentative list of Romance and Slavonic, considering that my previous post in this thread was about continuing with my current team or my potential joining of an Uralic-Altaic team by virtue of Finnish, Hungarian and (probably) Turkish.

Serpent wrote:

Supervisors are a fantastic idea! I don't think I have the energy for team sputnik but I'd love to be one for the Uralic+Slavic team:)

Ahhh... You're a tyttö after minun oma sydämeni, Serpent :-) I would be pleased to know if I could count on you as a Finnish reference (in addition to bela_lugosi, Marikki, and Kounotori).

I also support the formalization of the presence of supervisors at native or near-native levels for teams even though I've seen the idea in action unofficially already for Hungarian (maxval) and Russian (Mapк), in addition to the committee for Polish (Gosiak, Theodisce, tozick, Zireael).

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