Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4902 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German
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Welcome to the group thread for Team Français. (Title subject to change).
For those who may not be familiar with "TAC", it stands for "Total Annihilation Challenge", the idea being that, over the course of the year, you would destroy obstacles to learning your target language.
Folks can do a TAC as an individual participant, or they can choose to join a team of others learning the same language/s. (There are also other combinations, e.g. languages from the same family.)
As a team member, you would be expected to:
- Support each other in language learning: answer questions if you're able to; offer advice; give encouragement; tell others about useful resources, websites, books, etc.
- Have a log: record your progress and language work done; share discoveries about your target language; note challenges and setbacks; -- Whatever language-related stuff you wish: it's your log! (If you're posting in French a lot, though, you may also wish to have a translation/ precis for those of your team-mates (or anyone else) whose level of French isn't up to understanding your posts.)
- Follow your team-mates' logs.
- Try to post at least something monthly. If you don't manage to post for two months, we will send out the chiens de recherche.
Those are the essentials. We could also have group activities. Luke has already made some good suggestions.
To join this team:
- post on the TAC 2015 Official Thread
- sign up on the HTLAL wiki page
- create a log (or just use your current log), and post a link on the TAC 2015 Official Thread
- post a reply on this thread with a link to your log
- your post on this thread should include your favourite French: book, comic/BD, film, TV series, audiobook/podcast, textbook, audio learning resource, video learning resource, web-based learning resource. (Try to post one for each, but if you don't have a favourite for a category leave it blank.
[Note: most of this is copied and pasted from last year's Team "Deuxième" thread.]
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You can copy and paste the following for your signup post:
Username:
Level in French:
Link to log:
Favourite book:
Favourite comic/BD:
Favourite film:
Favourite TV series:
Favourite band/singer/musician:
Favourite audiobook/podcast:
Favourite textbook:
Favourite audio learning resource:
Favourite video learning resource:
Favourite web-based learning resource:
Anything else about your learning journey:
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Team Information
Team co-leaders: PeterMollenburg and Jeffers (moi-même!)
Team deputies: Luke and Mohave
Edited by Jeffers on 01 January 2015 at 10:07pm
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Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4902 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German
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Team member list
anamsc2
Cavesa
Fiyero
fortheo
garyb
IBEP
Iolanthe
Jeffers
Lakeseayesno
liam.pike1
Light
Luke
Meyers
Mohave
PeterMollenburg
plumben!
Redflag
Rem
s.mann
sctroyenne
sillygoose1
Straya
suzukaze
Tiy
tomgosse
Tristano
Virineya
Wessnosa
Edited by Jeffers on 24 January 2015 at 8:27pm
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Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4902 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German
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Team member favourites
(I plan to compile this list from your entry forms in a week or two).
Edited by Jeffers on 03 January 2015 at 4:31pm
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Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4902 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German
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Useful resources for learning French
Mainly for links to resources.
I'll start to fill this in soon. I'm not sure yet, but I'll probably organize it by category, such as podcasts, news, literature, etc. Any suggestions are welcomed.
Edited by Jeffers on 02 January 2015 at 2:20am
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Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4902 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German
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Challenges
The first challenge is easy: give us a list of your favourites as outlined in the first post above.
Edited by Jeffers on 01 January 2015 at 10:16pm
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Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4902 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German
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Username: Jeffers
Level in French: A2/B1
Link to log: http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?T ID=37873&TPN=14
Favourite book: Le Petit Nicolas
Favourite comic/BD: Tintin
Favourite film: Amélie, Le dîner de cons
Favourite TV series: Boulevard du palais
Favourite band/singer/musician: Jean-Louis Aubert (of Téléphone), Raphaël Haroche
Favourite audiobook/podcast: L'avis de Marie, Au coeur de l'histoire
Favourite textbook: Assimil NFWE
Favourite audio learning resource: FSI
Favourite video learning resource: French in Action
Favourite web-based learning resource: lingvist.io
Anything else about your learning journey: I started learning French because I was frustrated trying to help my son with his French homework. 3 1/2 years later I am really enjoying my slow but steady progress, and now learning French is my main hobby.
Edited by Jeffers on 01 January 2015 at 10:28pm
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Wessnosa Diglot Newbie Poland Joined 3838 days ago 14 posts - 24 votes Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: German, French
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Username:Wessnosa
Level in French: omlette AU formage (A0?)
Link to log: http://www.how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.a sp?TID=39851&PN=1&TPN=1
Favourite book:
Favourite comic/BD:
Favourite film: Romeo et Juliette, Notre Dame de Paris (musicals)
Favourite TV series: Adventure Time! (cartoons)
Favourite audiobook/podcast:
Favourite textbook: Vite et Bien
Favourite audio learning resource: Assimil
Favourite video learning resource: TV5Monde+
Favourite web-based learning resource: fluentu.com, duolingo.com, lingvist.io
Anything else about your learning journey: Hey, that's my first TAC, I'll need some help with writing the log properly ;)
May I put there everything I'll find intresting?
I'll fill in the whole form, don't worry.
Edited by Wessnosa on 02 January 2015 at 9:41pm
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Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4902 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German
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Welcome to the team, Wessnosa!
You can put anything you want in your log. Some people list the amount of time they spend learning, some people talk about the ups and downs of their learning, some people write about the resources they've been using. Anything goes; just keep us up to date.
Also, do you watch Adventure Time in French? Good idea!
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