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| tastyonions Triglot Senior Member United States goo.gl/UIdChYRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4657 days ago 1044 posts - 1823 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: Italian | Message 97 of 204 25 January 2013 at 1:27pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I changed my Google accounts (GMail, YouTube) to French and my phone has been in French for a while. I don't use Siri, though, so I've avoided any headaches with voice recognition so far. I had Firefox in French for a bit, but I found it too hard to navigate the preferences menu when I needed to change some settings: there were simply too many unknown words. Maybe in another month or two.
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| Flarioca Heptaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5874 days ago 635 posts - 816 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Esperanto, French, EnglishC2, Spanish, German, Italian Studies: Catalan, Mandarin | Message 98 of 204 25 January 2013 at 3:09pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I think that we could try some "End of the Month Activity".
For instance, each of us could choose a videoclip from Youtube with a song in your TL, write here the lyrics and comment about the nicest words, phrases or grammatical feature of the song. Anyway, I hope that someone will have a better idea :-)) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4680 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian | Message 99 of 204 25 January 2013 at 3:16pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
I've done this with my OS settings, Firefox, etc. for various languages in the past and run into this as well, so that I eventually developed a routine. When I want to switch something over (usually browser, gmail, or fb), I spend 30-60 minutes (if necessary) going through and looking for all the different menu commands, etc. that I can find and translating any unknown words with a dictionary (Google Translate). Then, day to day usage of the interface provides an SRS-style reinforcement of those words. The only real problem is when an unexpected exception calls up a pop-up window and I have trouble understanding it, but that's the risk you run. Don't change language for anything affecting your financial accounts unless and until you feel comfortable doing business in that language as a graphical interface. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4881 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 100 of 204 25 January 2013 at 3:38pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I second Flarioca's song idea. It'd be nice to do something to bring the group
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| Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5387 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 101 of 204 25 January 2013 at 3:51pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I like the song idea too.
A bunch of the other teams have created a list of challenges.. I think it originally came from LanguageSponge here. I am in the middle of too much stuff right now (dead car, kitty in heat, and broken tooth) that should all hopefully be taken care of next week, but I was planning on revising that for our team and posting it in the next week or so. If anyone else has the time and inclination, though, you're welcome to beat me to it. =) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| fezmond Groupie Korea, South Joined 4918 days ago 72 posts - 78 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Korean, French | Message 102 of 204 25 January 2013 at 4:20pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I like Kerrie's list from LanguageSponge and the song idea is great too.
Count me in whichever is chosen. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Quique Diglot Senior Member Spain cronopios.net/Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4674 days ago 183 posts - 313 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: French, German | Message 103 of 204 25 January 2013 at 4:32pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
I'm joining the party! Right now I'm setting the operating system of my laptop to French:
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| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5685 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish | Message 104 of 204 26 January 2013 at 5:27pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I agree that it would be fun to have a group activity. I really like the song idea, and LanguageSponge's list is amazing! Even if we don't officially choose something from the list, I'll probably be saving it for my own personal use.
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