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| LanguageSponge Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5769 days ago 1197 posts - 1487 votes  Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Welsh, Russian, Japanese, Slovenian, Greek, Italian | Message 73 of 586 09 December 2012 at 2:21pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Thanks to Teango and Woodsei for the welcome :) I'm looking forward to the beginning of
the challenge and will be interested to see what rubbish comes out of my mouth when I speak Russian again on a presumably regular basis. I'm going to spend the next few weeks collecting up resources for Russian. I didn't bring any of my Russian books with me to China so I suppose that's as good an excuse as any to load up my Kindle with whatever I can find in the right format. It's times like these where I get annoyed that Russia doesn't have Amazon. Regarding tarvos's question about a Captain, whatever worked so well for Team Sputnik in 2012 is fine by me :) Off to widen my search for Russian Kindle books. Jack 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5059 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian* | Message 74 of 586 09 December 2012 at 4:18pm | IP Logged | |||||
Russia has more interesting things. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4710 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 75 of 586 09 December 2012 at 4:37pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Russia also has a postal service that couldn't outrun a turtle.
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 TheGreaterFool Pro Member Canada Joined 4375 days ago 65 posts - 78 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Russian, Modern Hebrew, French Personal Language Map | Message 76 of 586 09 December 2012 at 4:46pm | IP Logged | |||||
Thx for the advice...I have been reading through the past logs and now have a solid handle on what is expected. It has been a very inspiring read to be sure! I will start up my TAC 2013 learning log once the team name for 2013 gets decided. Definitely getting excited about the fun and challenges ahead! cheers niels 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| fabriciocarraro Hexaglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Brazil russoparabrasileirosRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4718 days ago 989 posts - 1454 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishB2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, French Studies: Dutch, German, Japanese | Message 77 of 586 09 December 2012 at 4:56pm | IP Logged | |||||
I totally agree! Things are not that easily (or cheaply) shipped from Russia to Brazil, so I have the same problem. The thing about Russians is that they have all kinds of websites to download things illegally. Vkontakte itself is like the most illegal website on the internet ahahaha since it has a huge "library" of songs, movies, links, etc etc. Thanks to that, I found the Harry Potter's 6th book for Kindle, among others. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4710 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 78 of 586 09 December 2012 at 9:28pm | IP Logged | |||||
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By the way, during the last Sputnik session I suggested "Mir" as the name for the new
team. It's short, quintessentially Russian, and refers to the ISS. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| mrwarper Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Spain forum_posts.asp?TID=Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5229 days ago 1493 posts - 2500 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2 Studies: German, Russian, Japanese | Message 79 of 586 09 December 2012 at 9:44pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Whatever we choose in the end, will we spell it in Cyrillic this time?
I mean, I don't really mind doing it either way, but one the things that made our name 'Sputnik' so prominent was that everyone in the forum could read it, and refer to it, whether they spoke Russian or not, without the need to 'translate' or learn to type Cyrillic characters. Does anybody who isn't studying Japanese know what 'Team う' is, or how to write that? OTOH it's a bit odd to have team names written in the 'wrong' alphabet... Just a thought. BTW, I'm all up for the space race theme, and Mir just couldn't be shorter... I wonder if Soyuz would be better known? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4847 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 80 of 586 09 December 2012 at 10:52pm | IP Logged | |||||
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We could also consider Team Gagarin, which would be a nice continuation of the spirit of Team Sputnik. But I would also be fine with Team Mir.
I don't mind if the Russian words are written in Latin script. I never know what all the Hanzi and Hiragana mean that the Asian teams use. I'm really looking forward to getting started. See you soon! BTW, thanks to Teango I now have an earworm of Голубой вагон... ;) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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