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| BaronBill Triglot Senior Member United States HowToLanguages.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4682 days ago 335 posts - 594 votes  Speaks: English*, French, German Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Persian | Message 9 of 266 11 December 2013 at 6:12pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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If we decide to stay traditional, I'm suggesting Team "Tiger"
If we want to go in a different direction, how about: Team "Scroll" I'm super excited to get started on this amazing journey with you guys (and girls)! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Silbermond Diglot Groupie United Kingdom xuexisprachen.wordprRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4349 days ago 64 posts - 79 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Mandarin, Italian, Spanish | Message 10 of 266 11 December 2013 at 6:32pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Ooh, I think I like the idea of staying traditional with Team Tiger... though that may be
because I can actually write that character ;). It's also the Year of the Horse next year, so Team Horse could be a suggestion? I'm really excited to be part of the Chinese team in 2014! I was a bit hit-and-miss last year but I think focussing on one team and particularly this language will help this time. The team was (and is) awesome - I think we can keep that up :). Incidentally, if we're keeping the idea of druckfehler's monthly challenges, I think doing introductions in January/December (like the team has done this year) is a good way to ease everyone into TAC and to see how we've improved over the year. It might be that someone has a different idea for these months, though. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6590 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 11 of 266 11 December 2013 at 6:52pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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The suggestions were posted on this page of the thread.
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| BaronBill Triglot Senior Member United States HowToLanguages.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4682 days ago 335 posts - 594 votes Speaks: English*, French, German Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Persian | Message 12 of 266 11 December 2013 at 8:42pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
From that thread, I really like: 鹊 – magpie /bird “attracts joy connected to the unity of people” I'd like to change my vote to Team Magpie! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| js6426 Diglot Senior Member Cambodia Joined 4513 days ago 277 posts - 349 votes Speaks: English*, Khmer Studies: Mandarin | Message 13 of 266 12 December 2013 at 1:22am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I also forgot to introduce myself - my name is Jonny, I am 25 and I live in Cambodia, but I am English. I have a 5
week old son, and so while learning Chinese has definitely become a passion of mine, it has taken a back seat for the time being, as being a father is infinitely more important to me. I have no idea where I would put my Chinese level. I know about 1500 Hanzi to read and write, have a vocab of maybe 2500 words. I can string together some sentences, often with terrible grammar, and my listening is terrible! I would love to be able to speak Cantonese, but I want to get my Mandarin to a far better level first. As for the team name, i'd like to vote for Team Magpie, and I gave a couple of reasons in the team name thread! All in all I am super excited for this year, and I am already getting the feeling that this is going to be a great team! I guess there's just something special about Chinese learners :D 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Ninibo Diglot Groupie Germany Joined 4009 days ago 88 posts - 116 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: Mandarin | Message 14 of 266 12 December 2013 at 8:37am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I'm happy with whatever name gets picked, but Magpie would nicely continue the bird theme from last year.
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| Sunja Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6078 days ago 2020 posts - 2295 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 15 of 266 12 December 2013 at 12:16pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Not to interrupt the current voting, but mrwarper and Serpent brought up the issue of the TAC titles being redundant and "ugly"
So I tried a new title -- I just put TAC at the end let me know if this works better. PS: when we decide on our name I'll put it in the title and it will be much easier for us to find ;) Edited by Sunja on 12 December 2013 at 12:18pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Sunja Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6078 days ago 2020 posts - 2295 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 16 of 266 12 December 2013 at 2:49pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Just to recap, the name suggestions are
鹰 – eagle “strength” (another flying creature) 鹊 – magpie /bird “attracts joy connected to the unity of people” (I like this one not only for the symbolism but it’s also a common bird where I live) 苍鹭 – heron „wishing for positive future, success in ones doing“ 大象 - elephant "strength, astuteness" 蝙蝠 - bat (luck, among other things) Silbermond suggested tiger 老虎 and horse 马 since it will be the Year of the Horse. Anyone else care to vote? No rush :) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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