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Luso
Hexaglot
Senior Member
Portugal
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819 posts - 1812 votes 
Speaks: Portuguese*, French, EnglishC2, GermanB1, Italian, Spanish
Studies: Sanskrit, Arabic (classical)

 
 Message 377 of 556
15 December 2013 at 5:57pm | IP Logged 
Serpent wrote:
Via Diva invited me to be the guardian angel of Team STARt and I'm taking the offer :-)


Nice. That's good news. For Team STARt, I mean. ;)

Edited by Luso on 15 December 2013 at 5:57pm

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mrwarper
Diglot
Winner TAC 2012
Senior Member
Spain
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Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2
Studies: German, Russian, Japanese

 
 Message 378 of 556
15 December 2013 at 7:09pm | IP Logged 
espejismo wrote:
mrwarper wrote:
How about me? I was supposed to godfather [...]

Awesome! By the way, I still have a pdf of your bilingual Azazel. It's really, really good. :)

Thank you for your kind words -- isn't it lovely how the pages don't go yellow and brittle over time, too? ;)

BTW (and sorry for going off-topic for a few secs) for those who know or read that ebook and others I made...
1) Keep in mind that the es+ru Azazel was made without my being able to read Russian for real, so that side is bound to be full of typos and such. I'd really be grateful to get corrections for it ;)
2) I know I was supposed to further comment on parallel texts and their making in a couple of threads, but my subscriptions seem to have been screwed by one of the database hiccups the forum had and I couldn't find them. I'd love to be PMed pointers to them *if* there's further interest in discussing such materials.

Serpent wrote:
mrwarper, with two Spanish teams, where will you be the godfather?[...]

[...]
Serpent wrote:
Actually, if you want to get to know more Spanish learners, I think there's nothing wrong with joining both.

If that's so for learners I don't think it can't work for us godfathers too. After all, I seem to recall I fathered the godfathers idea, so that'd double my chances of actually preaching by example and put my mind to ease... :)

Keeping the competition thing in mind, though, it would possibly be better for all non-observers to stay in one team per language when possible...

I guess I can be tentatively listed in both teams and if any other prospective godfathers join in, I'm sure we and the team members will somehow redistribute ourselves.
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Othar
Diglot
Senior Member
Germany
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Speaks: German*, English
Studies: Norwegian, Turkish

 
 Message 379 of 556
15 December 2013 at 7:17pm | IP Logged 
Emme wrote:
Observers/wanderluster:

What does an observer do? Comment on the thread without being a member?
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Serpent
Octoglot
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Russian Federation
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Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish

 
 Message 380 of 556
15 December 2013 at 7:33pm | IP Logged 
This status is mostly for those who are only planning to learn the language or those not focusing on the active skills (speaking, writing). You can also sign up with this status if you are not sure about your plans and later upgrade. Downgrading is also possible. This flexibility is an attempt to reduce the dropout rates.
An observer IS a member, and if they commented other people's logs and participated in the team thread, the observers of the winning team are also considered winners.
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Emme
Triglot
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Italy
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Speaks: Italian*, English, German
Studies: Russian, Swedish, French

 
 Message 381 of 556
15 December 2013 at 7:43pm | IP Logged 
Othar wrote:
Emme wrote:
Observers/wanderluster:

What does an observer do? Comment on the thread without being a member?

Here’s how Serpent described it here on this thread (post nr. 140):

Serpent wrote:
[...]

If you are interested in a language but unsure about your plans, you can sign up as "curious"/observer/linguist/wanderluster, whatever fits you. This means that you will be reading and commenting other people's logs but without a pressure to study more yourself. This also means less pressure for developing your active skills if they're not a high priority for you.

You can sign up as observer from the beginning or you can change your status if you have no time for the language, instead of dropping the challenge altogether. If you get madly excited about the language, you can also upgrade your status to full member.

[...]



EDIT: Oooops! By the time I got round to finding the quotation Serpent already answered the question.


Edited by Emme on 15 December 2013 at 7:48pm

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Anya
Pentaglot
Senior Member
France
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Speaks: Russian*, FrenchC1, English, Italian, Spanish
Studies: German, Japanese, Hungarian, Sanskrit, Portuguese, Turkish, Mandarin
Studies: Ancient Greek, Hindi

 
 Message 382 of 556
16 December 2013 at 9:12pm | IP Logged 
Hello everybody:

Here are my plans for 2014:

French: B2/C1 to C1/C2
Turkish: A0/A1 to B1/B2
Sanskrit: A0/A1 to B1
Spanish: A2/B1 to B2
Hindi: A0 to A2
Chinese: A1 to B1
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kanewai
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United States
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Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese
Studies: Italian, Spanish

 
 Message 383 of 556
17 December 2013 at 3:03am | IP Logged 
I updated the language list on page 37; I think I caught everyone.

It looks like most of the teams have started threads for TAC 14, so I might not update
this running list again. It was mostly designed to help people find each other in
these 48 pages. So, remember to visit your team thread to say hello, salaam, or god dag
& become an official member!

TAC 14 Teams with threads
French
Spanish
Spanish & Portuguese (Team Iberia)
Italian
Scandinavian (Danish, Swedish, Norwegian) - discussion underway at TAC 13 Viking.
Dutch
Russian
Polish & Ukranian
Finnish
Mandarin & Cantonese
Japanese
Korean
Irish / Celtic
Turkish (Team Yürükler)
STARt

Unsure
German
English / ESL
Greek
Persian
Rare

notes
I think the Baltic / Uralic / Slavonic people are still discussing how to group their
teams. See Chung's TAC 14 thread for details.






Edited by kanewai on 17 December 2013 at 5:39am

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sillygoose1
Tetraglot
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United States
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Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish, French
Studies: German, Latin

 
 Message 384 of 556
17 December 2013 at 3:39am | IP Logged 
The Italian team is up and running with a thread and a few signups already.


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