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| Suzie Diglot Senior Member Belgium Joined 4235 days ago 155 posts - 226 votes  Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Dutch | Message 89 of 232 01 February 2014 at 11:00am | IP Logged | ||
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Hi Jeffers, I am doing the 6WC this time as well. I had intended to use this for an intense grammar review and textbook exercises, but unfortunately will not find the time to do this as intensely as I would have loved to. I will still participate, though - if it motivates me to do ten minutes more than I would have done without, I have already won! I will only log the "active" learning time, not counting listening or reading.
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| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4915 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 90 of 232 01 February 2014 at 1:59pm | IP Logged | ||
I think I can understand why you would only log active learning time, but I would encourage you to think again about not counting listening and reading activities. Seeing your numbers go up is a motivation to keep doing more of both! At least for simple minds like mine. ;) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Suzie Diglot Senior Member Belgium Joined 4235 days ago 155 posts - 226 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Dutch | Message 91 of 232 01 February 2014 at 3:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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Oh yeah, I completely agree, Jeffers! And I am counting that time anyway, for me, long-term. But I have done a lot of reading and listening so far and just would like to force myself to focus on the brain-melting part right now, to push me out of my comfort zone. It's an experiment, we'll see how things go^^
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 songlines Pro Member Canada flickr.com/photos/cp Joined 5215 days ago 729 posts - 1056 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French Personal Language Map | Message 92 of 232 03 February 2014 at 6:07pm | IP Logged | ||
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Are Suzie and Jeffers the only two Deuxième members taking part in the Six Week Challenge?
Team Deuxìeme: Might anyone be interested in a little February mini-challenge of our own? Trawling through some of the other team threads, and from last year's Pax team, here are some ideas (in no particular order): A: "Get addicted: aim to do 30 hours of target language study this month, or study every day for an # of minutes that you can decide for yourself" (from the Rare Languages team, as a tie-in to the 6WC.) B: Post a song (or more). Choose one/ all of the options: translate it, learn the lyrics (or only one verse if you're a beginner). (From the Russian team, and from last year's Pax.) C: Food/ recipes: One/more options: post a recipe, either in French or English, and translate it. Prepare the dish, and post picture. (inspired by Enrdbrow's log, and last year's Pax.) D: Word of the Week: Share a new/favourite word/phrase/idiom each week: . it can be a quirky, difficult, beautiful, amusing, or unusual word which you found ; or something that you learned a long time ago, and are delighted to unexpectedly come across now; or something that has an interesting story or usage behind it. Or perhaps it could be a word which you have an interesting story about - perhaps a "false friend" which you used incorrrectly, to your later embarrasment? (Inspired by the Chinese team, which had a suggestion for writing about a hanzi character.) February's a short month, and we're a little late starting, so if anyone's interested in any of the above, let us know soon...! I won't hold votes for this <smile> . If no one's interested, the ideas can certainly keep till the following months... I myself favour Option D. It should be "doable" for all levels of learners; isn't difficult to actually do; - plus, it'll benefit the rest of the team - we'll expand our vocabularies! And one favour to ask of you folks posting on the team thread: if you're posting in French, would you mind including an English translation as well? - This'll help the team members (and visitors to the log) whose French is at a lower level. Or alternatively, a short English summary of whatever discussion you might have in French? It's not a biggie, but would help to keep the thread welcoming; being faced with posts which one might not understand can be a tad intimidating. Edited by songlines on 03 February 2014 at 6:11pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Cristianoo Triglot Senior Member Brazil https://projetopoligRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4127 days ago 175 posts - 289 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, FrenchB2, English Studies: Russian | Message 93 of 232 03 February 2014 at 6:59pm | IP Logged | ||
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My suggestions:
Anyone could chose 1+ of those below: For intermediate/adv: 1. Read a book with at least 200 pages and post what it's talk about (few lines). 2. Write a text starting with If I were a <profession> I would... one could chose any profession, including unrealistic, improbable etc. 3. Chose an object, call someone and describe it by skype without saying the name. The other person should then come here and write the object's name in English. For beginners: 1. Read a news from a newspaper and explain it here in English. 2. Conjugate a list of 30 verbs (1 per day) in Indicatif: Présent, Passé composé, Imparfait, Futur proche (aller + verbe) et Futur simple What do you think? Edited by Cristianoo on 03 February 2014 at 7:01pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4915 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 94 of 232 03 February 2014 at 8:45pm | IP Logged | ||
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I like the idea of posting a song, and the word of the week idea. I already do at least 30 hours most months. :)
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| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4895 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 95 of 232 03 February 2014 at 9:09pm | IP Logged | ||
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I love the idea of a mini-challenge.
I tend to burn out on the constant timing & twittering that you need to do for the 6-week challenges. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| PeterMollenburg Senior Member AustraliaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5482 days ago 821 posts - 1273 votes Speaks: English* Studies: FrenchB1 | Message 96 of 232 03 February 2014 at 10:05pm | IP Logged | ||
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okidoki,
I don't really totally understand the concept of the 6wc when already doing the TAC, thus I will simply try to do more hours of study than I did in January, Feb has less days and this will keep me on my toes as i've started Feb a little slow :) Jan I did 101hrs study of my courses, Feb i'm aiming to better that, i'm going to attempt to reach 140 hrs in Feb, but know this is not likely to happen but i'll try. Getting somewhere between the 101 for Jan and the rediculous (140) would be a pretty decent accomplishment for me. PM 1 person has voted this message useful |
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