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| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 3984 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes  Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 57 of 61 16 May 2014 at 11:13pm | IP Logged | ||
Honestly? I'd rather you didn't! As a team observer, I was happy to get an update in my inbox - and a bit disappointed that it wasn't a real post. Cat gifs are best for Facebook - unless of course you happen to translate them into a SEAsian language. ;) BTW Team Coconut - I'm now a little more than 2 weeks into Tagalog study, using the six-week challenge as a motivator. And let me tell you…it's making my head spin! Edited by Stelle on 16 May 2014 at 11:13pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Luso Hexaglot Senior Member Portugal Joined 5901 days ago 819 posts - 1812 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, French, EnglishC2, GermanB1, Italian, Spanish Studies: Sanskrit, Arabic (classical) | Message 58 of 61 17 May 2014 at 1:03am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm afraid that, if you look at the first page of this thread, you'll get the complete picture: a new member self-appointed as team leader, a few senior members saying this was not allowed, and a few people actually joining the team.
The last relevant post was in January, the team's "leader" visited the forum for the last time in the beginning of February and most of the links to members' logs are dead. @ SomeGuy: I'd like to draw your attention to this post of yours. You wondered why shouldn't a new member be team leader. Here's your answer. Please don't misunderstand me: I sympathise with the members of this team. The same happened to me in the past... twice. Furthermore, as member (and leader) of the Rare Languages team, I was expecting to come here and find interesting posts. I hope you guys don't give up and manage to keep on learning these interesting languages. Edited by Luso on 17 May 2014 at 1:20am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Bakunin Diglot Senior Member Switzerland outerkhmer.blogspot. Joined 4970 days ago 531 posts - 1126 votes Speaks: German*, Thai Studies: Khmer | Message 59 of 61 17 May 2014 at 5:31am | IP Logged | ||
Yeah, agree. I'm still fully committed to Thai as can be seen from my log, but I stopped posting here since the team leader left in early February. It's a good lesson for all of us. A TAC team either needs a committed and experienced team leader or a rather large number of active members interested in sharing their progress, otherwise it just disintegrates. With regards to Thai, I'm still going at full speed. It's a beautiful language, and the more I can do in the language, the more interesting it gets. I recently started reading and sometimes even participating in forums, I'm reading my first linguistics book in Thai, and I've taken to working intensively on my writing (on lang-8) and speaking (on italki). I'm currently in Thailand and it's great to be fully functional in the language. Whether this team is active or not, whether HTLAL goes down or stays around, doesn't really impact my language learning. But if we had a handful of advanced learners of Thai around, I'd be posting much more stuff. I see many interesting things these days, e.g., slang, register, Pali and Sanskrit roots, interesting or special words, language change, pronunciation etc. But it takes like 5 to 10 advanced people interested in those questions to get a lively conversation going. I'm also a bit skeptical about the concept of lumping languages together. This may work for beginners or closely related languages, but I don't see how the average Tagalog learner would benefit from a discussion of informal function words in Thai, spelling peculiarities or regional pronunciation patterns. Anyway, just wanted to stop by to say that I'm still enjoying Thai. I wish all of us who are still actively learning SEA languages lots of fun and a successful second half of the year! Edited by Bakunin on 17 May 2014 at 5:33am 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| SomeGuy Groupie Germany Joined 4940 days ago 56 posts - 75 votes Speaks: German* Studies: Arabic (Written), Turkish, Mandarin | Message 60 of 61 17 May 2014 at 1:54pm | IP Logged | ||
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@Luso
-the links to the member logs are just wrong linked, just delete everything in front of tinyurl, they're wrong linked since the beginning. -thanks for linking to my own post :) -maybe doubleUelle was not the chosen one but maybe the next newbie who start a TAC Group is it. @Stelle good luck with Tagalog! its seems be be an awesome language. ps: dont let ceiling cat hear that you dont want any cat images in this thread @bakunin yep, lumping the SEA Languages together was wrong, but i doubt that will be enough people to start a Thai only group or even a Burmese/Vietnamese/Khmer group. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Luso Hexaglot Senior Member Portugal Joined 5901 days ago 819 posts - 1812 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, French, EnglishC2, GermanB1, Italian, Spanish Studies: Sanskrit, Arabic (classical) | Message 61 of 61 17 May 2014 at 4:05pm | IP Logged | ||
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It's just not worth the gamble for "the chosen one", I think. Thanks for the tip about tinyurl, by the way.
As for lumping languages, it's risky, but it can work. This team is doing ok. Actually, I think it's better than ok, but I'm an insider. ;) Stelle is already an observer. I would be glad to have you guys as observers too. If you feel like posting, feel free to. We have an impressive array of languages and, more impressive still, of alphabets. You can also see that the average quality of the posts is high (there I go again, blowing my own trumpet). I (and, I'm pretty sure, other team members too) would gladly welcome informed posts regarding Thai from Bakunin (he seems to be quite ahead in his studies). Maybe a feature of the language, or what I named a "cultural presentation". Of course, Thai is just an example. Khmer, Vietnamese, Burmese, etc., are also welcome. That's the Rare Languages' spirit. :) Edited by Luso on 17 May 2014 at 4:24pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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