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| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5948 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes  Studies: French | Message 1 of 8 29 January 2009 at 1:10am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I am taking the liberty of bending the TAC rules somewhat to establish on a trial basis a log for my study efforts in the form of an extended TAC self-challenge. I am keeping a separate log of a more narrative nature elsewhere, and intend here only to render a dry record for my own purposes of material studied or reviewed, so it is unlikely to be of any real interest to others. Feel free, however, to poke around: it is mostly the fear that others will see here what a lazy fellow I am that hopefully will motivate me to keep studying at least six days a week.
Challenge: attain by the end of May 2028 at least a "just a shade beyond rank beginner" conversational and reading ability in the following languages (not necessarily acquired in the following order): French, German, Japanese, Italian, Norwegian, Indonesian, Czech, Swahili, Mandarin, Spanish, Arabic, Scottish Gaelic, Greek, Portuguese, Croatian, Turkish, Swedish, Russian, Africaans and one of either Thai, Laotian or Cambodian. Henceforth, only study log entries and no more narrative comment from me here until the end of May 2028, at which time I (a new, improved, multi-lingual and considerably more smug I) will come back to gloat and etc. Best wishes to everyone in their own mad TACs and learning language goals. Spanky Edit: After a night's reflection, I have changed my mind - two separate logs seems a little excessive, so I'll discontinue this one and diarize it for 2028 just to see how things have turned out. Edited by Spanky on 29 January 2009 at 9:22am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5948 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French | Message 2 of 8 10 December 2012 at 11:00pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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After 1422 more nights of additional reflection, I have decided to punch in from time to time to provide irregular interim updates of the break-neck pace of my progress in this challenge.
As of pretty much the end of 2012, my status is as follows: French – in progress. So far I have: Completed: Pimsleur I, II and III Michel Thomas, Beginners (Foundation) course FSI, French Phonology A fair number of articles from French.about.com Watched: Intouchables Paris je t’aime (about 30 times) Bon Cop, Bad Cop Non, ce pays n'est pas pour le vieil homme - No Country for Old Men Le chevalier noir - The Dark Knight Max le menance - Get Smart Read: Bunch of kiddies books, mostly involving Rattu and his rascally adventures Camus, L’Etranger – years ago, hated it Tintin, L'affaire Tournesol Various cereal boxes (the French part of the bilingual packaging), including Count Chocula, Rice Krispies, et ma favori, L’Honey-comb German – stalled Started Pimsleur, Michel Thomas and DW Warum Nicht, but abandoned them all sometime ago in favour of being sloth-like Japanese Japanese – stalled Worked through and internalized some of the Remembering the Kanji, up to about the first 300 characters, and then got all headachy and put it aside and am now too terrified to go back The other 17 languages Not yet started, but I still have 15 years, so get off my back. See ya in a while or something. Edited by Spanky on 10 December 2012 at 11:09pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| kujichagulia Senior Member Japan Joined 4839 days ago 1031 posts - 1571 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Portuguese | Message 3 of 8 11 December 2012 at 4:23am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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This thread depresses me. I'll be 50 in 2028!
Anyway, good luck! You have a hard task ahead, but certainly a doable one. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| 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 4 of 8 11 December 2012 at 8:06am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Hey Spanky!
You’re getting a little ahead of yourself starting your 2028 log already. I like your learning strategies though. Keep reading the Count Chocula, and L’Honey Comb. I’ll probably stick to El oatmeal. :D I think I have to join the Romance team this year just to be on the same team as you. There's still room on the Japanese team BTW. It's really not all that scary. Edited by Brun Ugle on 11 December 2012 at 8:13am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5948 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French | Message 5 of 8 11 December 2012 at 4:42pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Well, I hate leaving things to the last minute, so I thought I would get a head start! I am currently sheltering notes concerning my sloth-like progress with French in a stand-alone log: "18 Months of French", which occasionally is in danger of being renamed "18 Months of indifferent, occasional French language study" in the interests of being strictly accurate.
Very tempting, but probably counterproductive for me at present. Edited by Spanky on 11 December 2012 at 4:45pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5948 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French | Message 6 of 8 11 December 2012 at 4:50pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Thanks kujichagulia. Part of me hopes I give up long before having to tackle Scottish Gaelic, because from the little I have seen of it, I am pretty sure that language will break my brain. Edited by Spanky on 11 December 2012 at 4:52pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| 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 7 of 8 11 December 2012 at 6:02pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
I thought maybe your calender was running fast.
But I see you have Norwegian on the list too. That one's easy, so it will counterbalance the difficulty of the Gaelic. Oh, and if you have Norwegian, you don't even need to bother with Swedish. There are lots of Swedes working here and they never bother learning Norwegian. (Don't tell any Swedes, but Swedish is just a dialect.) Edited by Brun Ugle on 11 December 2012 at 6:06pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Ogrim Heptaglot Senior Member France Joined 4631 days ago 991 posts - 1896 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, French, Romansh, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Catalan, Latin, Greek, Romanian | Message 8 of 8 11 December 2012 at 6:11pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
And I will be close to retirement! Let's just hope HTLAL still goes strong by then, so we can look forward to Spanky's TAC 2055... 1 person has voted this message useful |
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