|
 |
TAC 2013 MIR Russian TEAM THREAD | ||
Share with:
| ||
 Language Learning Forum : Language Learning Log |  | |
| 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 257 of 586 02 January 2013 at 6:48pm | IP Logged | |||||
|
I've just posted my goals for 2013 on my log, if anyone is interested! =)
1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Toffeeliz Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5683 days ago 116 posts - 130 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: Russian | Message 258 of 586 02 January 2013 at 8:40pm | IP Logged | |||||
|
Hope the goals go well fabrico!
Just a quick note to say I'm lagging behind on reading everyone's logs, but will get there eventually! :D Well done to all you dedicated souls who got there first! Hope the studying is going well. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| riff Newbie United States Joined 5297 days ago 32 posts - 36 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian | Message 259 of 586 02 January 2013 at 11:16pm | IP Logged | |||||
|
I've taken the liberty of throwing up a site on Wordpress that we could use:
Team MIR Website I'm not a Wordpress wizard by any means, so if anyone can do a better job, I will gladly step aside, just say the word. Anyone who wants to help administer the site or become an author just needs to send me an email address or Wordpress username so I can invite them. I may be a little slow adding people since I'll be traveling for the next two weeks and my internet access will be iffy. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5337 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 260 of 586 02 January 2013 at 11:43pm | IP Logged | |||||
Thanks a lot!!! I love making a wish, then go to the airport to pick up my daughter, and before I am back it is already fulfilled. Being on this team is like having Aladdin's lamp in you hands :-) I look forward to us filling the website with beautiful pictures and music and film references and jokes and resources and whatnot and if mrwarper can get the Russian "million and Queen" thing in Russian, and an assurance from a Russian that it is not totally inappropriate to say it in public, we could even have that there! Any other ideas for what we could fill it with? Anyone else who will step forward and assist riff? Edited by Solfrid Cristin on 02 January 2013 at 11:44pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
 Mae Trilingual Octoglot Pro Member Germany Joined 4994 days ago 299 posts - 499 votes Speaks: German*, SpanishC2*, Swiss-German*, FrenchC2, EnglishC2, ItalianB2, Dutch, Portuguese Studies: Russian, Swedish Personal Language Map | Message 261 of 586 03 January 2013 at 3:43am | IP Logged | |||||
Ahhh... I was already wondering how long it would take, until further TAC-blogs emerge :-))) It's great to see that someone got inspired by our website already! I left a comment under "resources", with a link where you can find some helpful sites to learn Russian (fair play!). And your team's website is now linked in our blogroll, so we can keep an eye on you guys! Удачи! Edited by Mae on 03 January 2013 at 4:10am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5398 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 262 of 586 03 January 2013 at 5:08am | IP Logged | |||||
Oh, it is late, and I am so drugged. Don't worry, it's all legal cold medicine. But still.. this just struck me as funny... 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| riff Newbie United States Joined 5297 days ago 32 posts - 36 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian | Message 263 of 586 03 January 2013 at 7:06am | IP Logged | |||||
@Kerrie Haha, that was a rather unfortunate choice of words wasn't it. I need to watch my language around here :). @Mae Thanks for your comment! I've added your site to our blogroll as well. Edited by riff on 03 January 2013 at 7:08am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5337 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 264 of 586 03 January 2013 at 2:19pm | IP Logged | |||||
|
KEEPING THE NEWBIES AND THE OLDIES :-)
There seems to be this underlying expectation that the TAC teams will loose 3/4ths of its members by the end of the year. And in particular the newbies seem to be considered "dead men walking" (on death row). The statistics are pretty grim on this. I am however determined that this will not happen to team MIR on my watch, and I have a number of suggestions as to how we can do it. Feel free to comment on my suggestions and to come up with more suggestions. Team Sputnik managed to keep almost half its members, and I think we can improve even on that. In space it is important both that every man is responsible for himself, and that no man is left behind. I think a combination of these two principles will spell success! 1. DO TASKS AND CHALLENGES I will give you tasks, generally of more administrative nature, and Language Sponge will give you small challenges. Do them if you can. It will help motivate you, and it will tie you closer to the team. I also suggest that you share your daily discoveries with the language under the "My discovery of the day" title. It does not have to be anything big. A funny word or un anfamiliar grammer point is enough. But be active. 2. ASK NOT WHAT THE TEAM CAN DO FOR YOU, BUT WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR THE TEAM! The best way of getting connected to a team, is to have a responsibility. That also makes it less heavy for me to be the captain, knowing that I have a team that can do all the things I cannot do, or that I do not have the capacity to do. I have asked tarvos to take care of the Skype sessions, LanguageSponge is in charge of the small challenges, riff of the web site, and I am going to ask another members of team MIR to do something else (will wait until I have talked to him). What can you contribute with? Most probably your immediate answer will be: I do not know of anything! But I am sure you can. Some of you can be good at Internet stuff, find links, find out how we publish audio, some could help riff with the web site, some are good at finding beautiful pictures and music for the web site, one can be in charge of the Russian content of our Skype sessions. Let your creativity flow, and let me know what you are good at. I am pretty good at motivation, and I am a world class nag :-), so if nothing else comes to mind, I can always need a couple of extra nags in the second half of the year. 3. READ AND COMMENT IN YOUR TEAM MATES' LOGS It can feel like heavy work right now, when everyone is eager to write, and there are so many logs, but from March on at least, it will be a piece of cake, because people write less frequently. It is however extremely important that we keep doing that, because it is demotivating when you see that the three last posts are written by yourself and that noone has bothered saying anything. "Keep up the good work", or a question about something you have written is way better than silence. 4. MENTORS No, I did not say dementors - this is not Harry Potter :-), I said mentors. I suggest that those who have experience from a previous TAC take on one to three less experienced TAC members. Ideally someone from approximately the same time zone, though that is not a must. It just makes things a bit easier. I volunteer for Emme (if she needs it) and Tofeeliz who are roughly on the same time zone and who are both girls, and I could probably take on a third one too, if anyone would like to have me as mentor. You may ask or offer through PMs or here on the thread, just let us know the result in the thread. The main duties of a mentor would just be to keep a particular eye on that member's log, and be availble for the questions they might be reluctant to ask in public. (Ok. I suddenly got a flash to the Woddy Allen film "Everything you have ever been afraid of asking about....") but I meant language related questions, obviously :-). Sending a PM with a friendly nudge if he/she vanishes for a while is also a good idea. We are such a large group that we are practically a school class, so I may not be able to "see" everyone all the time. Together we can. 5. MARCH, AUGUST AND NOVEMBER FRESH STARTS Everyone is enthusiastic through January and February, but already in March people start losing motivation. We may need mid term kick off parties to prevent that from happening. Party suggestions are welcome :-) 6. SET MONTHLY GOALS This is LanguageSponge's idea, and it is a wonderful idea. You know how you eat an elephant? In small bites. Look at your year goals, and try to quantify your goals for the month. It will give you an idea of how big the bites need to be. Whether you chose a language per month, two languages per month, some of them or all of them is up to you. Find a system which works for you, and modify it if needed. 7. PICK UP GOOD IDEAS FROM THE OTHER TEAMS! If you hear of a good idea from another team, tell us about it! Do give credit to the person/team who come up with it first though. If all the teams do a bit of benchmarking and take the best ideas and adapt them to the needs of their teams, then we could perhaps raise the overall life expectancy of the TAC team members, and that would truely be a success! 8.DON'T BE AFRAID TO COME BACK! The most important is however the following: You are on a team. We depend on you. And we will not let you down. If you fall behind we do not get mad, we do not get disappointed, and if you are too far behind to catch up on challenges or whatever just jump in wherever you are and do your best. Your best will always be good enough. Feeling bad about your performance is a really lousy motivator, so even if you have fallen off the grid for a while, we are there for you. It happens to most of us at one point, the important part is getting back in the saddle. Oh and if anyone else feels like posting any of this or picking out ideas for their team threads you are of course welcome to do so - if it can contribute to one more member per team making it to the end, it is worth it. 6 persons have voted this message useful |
|  | 
Printable version
|
| Copyright 2024 FX Micheloud - All rights reserved No part of this website may be copied by any means without my written authorization. |
