Travis.H Triglot Groupie United States Joined 4449 days ago 59 posts - 91 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese, Sign Language Studies: French
| Message 225 of 902 09 December 2012 at 1:56pm | IP Logged |
Thank you so much Brun Ugle for organizing this. I'm getting very excited to start!
After thinking about it a little more, I would like to narrow down what I'm studying to
just French, no Arabic, no Norwegian. I would rather be able to give 100% to one team
than spread myself thin across two or three. Sorry for the confusion. Thanks again for
doing all of this!
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benbassist Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5420 days ago 51 posts - 52 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, Japanese
| Message 226 of 902 09 December 2012 at 2:06pm | IP Logged |
I would like to sign up for the Japanese Team う。
Ben
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Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6613 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish
| Message 227 of 902 09 December 2012 at 2:07pm | IP Logged |
Travis.H wrote:
Thank you so much Brun Ugle for organizing this. I'm getting very excited to start!
After thinking about it a little more, I would like to narrow down what I'm studying to
just French, no Arabic, no Norwegian. I would rather be able to give 100% to one team
than spread myself thin across two or three. Sorry for the confusion. Thanks again for
doing all of this!
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OK. I'll leave you on the Romance team and take you off the others then.
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Takato Tetraglot Senior Member HungaryRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5041 days ago 249 posts - 276 votes Speaks: Hungarian*, EnglishB2, GermanB2, Japanese
| Message 228 of 902 09 December 2012 at 2:56pm | IP Logged |
Brun Ugle wrote:
TEAMS
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Middle East (+ French ?)
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Is there a reason for you limiting Arabic to the Middle Eastern part of it? Many people learn Egyptian Arabic, and Egypt is not in the Middle East. :|
Edited by Takato on 09 December 2012 at 3:08pm
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Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6613 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish
| Message 229 of 902 09 December 2012 at 3:15pm | IP Logged |
Takato wrote:
Brun Ugle wrote:
TEAMS
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Middle East (+ French ?)
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Is there a reason for you limiting Arabic to the Middle Eastern part of it? Many people learn Egyptian Arabic, and Egypt is not in the Middle East. :| |
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There is no limit to the Middle East. It refers more to the origin of the language. English is considered a European language even if you learn American or Australian English.
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Takato Tetraglot Senior Member HungaryRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5041 days ago 249 posts - 276 votes Speaks: Hungarian*, EnglishB2, GermanB2, Japanese
| Message 230 of 902 09 December 2012 at 3:37pm | IP Logged |
Brun Ugle wrote:
Takato wrote:
you limiting Arabic to the Middle Eastern part of it? [...] :| |
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There is no limit to the Middle East. |
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What a relief! :D Then can you please put me in the Middle East team with a question mark? (I don't want to be obligated to learn French.)
Edited by Takato on 09 December 2012 at 3:39pm
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joshkaasik Bilingual Diglot Groupie United States Joined 4505 days ago 61 posts - 66 votes Speaks: English*, Estonian* Studies: Spanish, German
| Message 231 of 902 09 December 2012 at 3:50pm | IP Logged |
LanguageSponge wrote:
joshkaasik,
It's great to see your enthusiasm for the upcoming TAC, and as someone who loves
Russian I would encourage you to add the beautiful Russian language to your already
fun-looking mix of Spanish and German!
No doubt someone else will turn up with better ideas but before I did my first TAC, I
started gathering the resources I was going to use. If I were you I'd start gathering
resources for Spanish, German and, if you so desire, Russian.
The first thing you could do from here is decide whether you want to do Russian or not,
and if you decide you do, do you want to be in a team or do Russian individually? Most
of us seem to find it much more motivational being part of a team.
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Thanks for the lengthy reply! I've already figured out most of my Spanish resources (Michel Thomas, Pimsleur,
Platiquemos, Assimil, and some music and radio), but am still working on my German resources.. I have Michel
Thomas and Pimsleur German, but need to get Assimil and possibly another book of some sort (open to
suggestions!).
I would LOVE to do Russian.. I grew up in Estonia, so there was always a lot of Russian around, but I never learned
it... now I'm kicking myself for that and looking for another chance to start, but at the moment Spanish and
German are much more practical for me.. so I'll wait 'till TAC 2014 to try to add Russian, I think.
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Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6613 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish
| Message 232 of 902 09 December 2012 at 3:51pm | IP Logged |
Takato wrote:
Brun Ugle wrote:
Takato wrote:
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What a relief! :D Then can you please put me in the Middle East team with a question mark? (I don't want to be obligated to learn French.) |
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There is no obligation to learn French. It was only suggested as a possible addition to the languages because it is so common in North Africa in addition to Arabic. So you don't have to learn all the languages, any one of them will do.
I'll put you on the list.
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