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| Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6612 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes  Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish | Message 65 of 553 15 December 2012 at 7:39pm | IP Logged | |||||
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| Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6612 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish | Message 66 of 553 15 December 2012 at 7:42pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I've added Emme and liddytime to my list and now with 15 members, this team is officially full.
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| Emme Triglot Senior Member Italy Joined 5339 days ago 980 posts - 1594 votes Speaks: Italian*, English, German Studies: Russian, Swedish, French | Message 67 of 553 15 December 2012 at 7:49pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Hej!
May I join you? I’m getting very inspired by this whole TAC thing, and I’d like to be part of Team Viking to focus on improving my limited Swedish. EDIT: Brun Ugle’s so efficient that she’s already added me to the team. Thank you, Brun Ugle! Edited by Emme on 15 December 2012 at 7:51pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7148 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 68 of 553 15 December 2012 at 7:51pm | IP Logged | |||||
Not to mention Scandinavia and the World :-) Even though I'm not a member (nor do I even see myself being a groupie), I've been thinking of ways to incorporate simple but humourous ways to keep my teams together. How about a translation challenge of a day's comic strip every week or month? It could be rather like this gag in SATW but instead of using Google Translate (which was part of the creator's punch line), each member could contribute the appropriate translation for the speech bubble of at least Denmark, Norway and Sweden and Finland, and then have it checked out by the Fairy Godmother or members who are already fluent in the language (e.g. jeff_lindqvist for Swedish, Serpent for Finnish). 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
 Mae Trilingual Octoglot Pro Member Germany Joined 4983 days ago 299 posts - 499 votes Speaks: German*, SpanishC2*, Swiss-German*, FrenchC2, EnglishC2, ItalianB2, Dutch, Portuguese Studies: Russian, Swedish Personal Language Map | Message 69 of 553 15 December 2012 at 8:45pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Hi all! I'm glad to join you. The name of the team is perfect!
Well, what can I say about me? To make it short: blogger, workaholic, gourmet, traveller, creative mind. Languages: fluent in deu gsw spa eng fra gsw ita; basics in por nld swe. Swedish I've been studying Swedish for 3 weeks intensively in September, and I want to improve as much as I can. Ideally I'll be able to sit a Swedish test and to pass, but I'm not sure which level to go for. My current level may be somewhat A1... Materials: "Tala Svenska" A1 and A2+, and some other stuff. I'll update that in my log. Dutch: I learned Dutch by myself and with some help of Fasulye! But after starting my Swedish course in September, I left Dutch aside. Since then, I haven't used this language anymore. Goal: Get the fluency back! Materials: "Praktischer Lehrgang Niederländisch" and some other stuff. For further info, I invite you to check my old log and/or my profile. ;-) Let's rock this TAC!!! Edited by Mae on 15 December 2012 at 8:46pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| limey75 Senior Member United Kingdom germanic.eu/ Joined 4391 days ago 119 posts - 182 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Norwegian, Old English | Message 70 of 553 15 December 2012 at 9:47pm | IP Logged | |||||
Does anyone know where you can read Hårek den hardbalne (Hägar) in Norwegian (preferably NN)? Thanks! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| liddytime Pentaglot Senior Member United States mainlymagyar.wordpre Joined 6221 days ago 693 posts - 1328 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Galician Studies: Hungarian, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew, Norwegian, Persian, Arabic (Written) | Message 71 of 553 16 December 2012 at 6:36am | IP Logged | |||||
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Whew! I just made it onto Team Viking! What a great group we have here. I'm pumped!
For those of you who don't know me from my other logs; my real name is Brian and I work full time as an Anesthesiologist in Oregon. My love for languages was born through my travel experiences ( I was the one traveling American who didn't want anyone to speak English to him!) and was nurtured through my experiences working in larger cities where half my patients didn't speak English. I have a bad habit of starting to learn a language only to be seduced by another one after 3 -4 months of study. So, unfortunately I would only rate myself as fluent (or C1) in Spanish, Italian and Portuguese/(Galician) , B1 in Russian and Turkish and far below B1 in about 20 others!! Thus, my real challenge for TAC 2013 will be sticking with a language for a full year. I think the team approach will help considerably with this. I have always been attracted to Norwegian as I pointed out in my previous post. My last language forays have been Thai, Vietnamese, Persian, Georgian, Mandarin and Arabic! I can't even say how much I am looking forward to the familiarity of a Germanic language written in a Latin script. My goal for the end of next year is to be able to speak and understand Norwegian well enough to fool a native speaker into thinking that I'm Norwegian! :-) I also really hope to be able to visit Scandinavia in 2014 ( not gonna happen in 2013 unfortunately). I am pretty much starting from scratch with Norwegian, so this is my rough plan: 1st Month - Pimsleur: Mainly to get the sounds of the language down with some basic vocabulary 2nd - 5th Month - Teach Yourself Norwegian or Norwegian in 3 Months I was planning on using Teach Yourself, but then I found a copy of the Hugo course which seems really good! I'll take the 1st month to go through each one and pick the one that suits me better. I figure once I get through one of these courses I can reassess my level and go from there. So here I go! Hei! Jeg er Brian fra Oregon. Jeg vil å lære norsk. Jeg håper jeg lærer mye! Skål! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5326 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 72 of 553 16 December 2012 at 9:02am | IP Logged | |||||
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Hei, Brian fra Oregon, det er bra at du vil lære norsk, og jeg er sikker på at du kommer til å lære masse!
Og ja, jeg synes dere har et fantastisk team! Anyone else out there in addition to Julie who have ten minutes to set aside to do Viking challenge number one? I know it may feel scary, but it is mostly just to see where your levels are, and then once the year starts you can all come up with more imaginative challenges. Edited by Solfrid Cristin on 16 December 2012 at 9:06am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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