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TAC 2015 - Rare Languages Team Thread | ||
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| Luso Hexaglot Senior Member Portugal Joined 6053 days ago 819 posts - 1812 votes  Speaks: Portuguese*, French, EnglishC2, GermanB1, Italian, Spanish Studies: Sanskrit, Arabic (classical) | Message 1 of 113 26 December 2014 at 11:47pm | IP Logged |
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Welcome to the TAC 2015 Rare Languages Team Thread.
About TAC TAC stands for Total Annihilation Challenge and started in 2007. This is the original thread. To keep things simple, there are just two main rules: 1. To have a language learning log and update it regularly 2. To follow your teammates' logs and give support About the Rare Languages Team By definition, everyone that studies a language that's not contemplated in other threads can join this team. I ask each one of you to make a post in this thread, indicating the languages you'll be participating with (present and target level also, or your best estimation) and a link to your log. I will add the member name, language(s) and log link to the roster. Please note that, due to the characteristics of this team, there's little more linking the members than the desire to study an uncommon language. That's very cool, but a bit hard to manage. As a consequence, we'll keep the rules we had for 2014. This means that: - anyone joining the group and not indicating a log link will not be added to the roster - anyone not updating the log for more than 60 days will be eliminated from the roster - anyone not visiting the forum at all for more than 45 days will be eliminated from the roster If this seems drastic, I'd like to remember all of you that TAC stands for Total Annihilation Challenge, and not for "I'll dabble in languages for two months then try something else and will come back in January 2016 to see if I've won the blue ribbon challenge". As team leader, I pledge to keep the first posts updated with everything pertaining to the team's activity: members, logs, godparents, links, resources, etc. Please feel free to send me a PM if you feel there's something I missed. I will not necessarily participate in activities that involve external tools or pieces of software, but will try my best to have them reflected in the challenges' post, if that's the members' wish. That's all. This team is in business. Join in, support your teammates and have fun learning rare languages. Edited by Luso on 27 December 2014 at 2:58am 6 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Luso Hexaglot Senior Member Portugal Joined 6053 days ago 819 posts - 1812 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, French, EnglishC2, GermanB1, Italian, Spanish Studies: Sanskrit, Arabic (classical) | Message 2 of 113 26 December 2014 at 11:48pm | IP Logged |
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Team Member List (link to the log by clicking on the name)
***I ASK TEAM MEMBERS TO PROVIDE FULL INFORMATION, AS PER THE EXAMPLE BELOW.*** ***LEVELS MUST BE PROVIDED. ESTIMATIONS ARE OK. NO ONE WILL CHECK.***  Anya - Sanskrit (A0/A1 => A2/B1)
 Druckfehler - Persian (A1 => A1+)
 Expugnator - Georgian (B1 => B1+)
 geoffw - Hebrew (A2 => B1)
IBEP - Kannada (C1 => C2)
 Lampang - Sanskrit (A0 => A2), Thai (A2/B1 => B2/B2+)
 Luso - Arabic (B1 => B2), Sanskrit (A1 => A2)
Magdalene - Hebrew (A0 => A2)
 Monox D. I-Fly - Arabic (A0 => A1)
 redflag - Indonesian (A1 => B1)
Serpent - Dutch (A2 => B1), Indonesian (A2 => B1), Karelian (A1 => A2)
 Sooniye - Albanian (A1 => A2), Hindi (A0 => A1+)
Sprachprofi - Hebrew (A0 => B1)
 Stelle - Tagalog (A1 => B1)
Teango - Hawaiian (A1 => B1+/B2)
 tristano - Dutch (A1 => B1)
YnEoS - Hindi (A1 => B1), Malay (A0 => A1), Telugu (A0 => A1), Thai (A1 => A2)
 Zireael - Arabic (A1+ => A2)
List by language  Albanian - Sooniye
 Arabic - Luso, Monox D. I-Fly, Zireael
 Dutch - Serpent, tristano
 Georgian- Expugnator
 Hawaiian - Teango
 Hebrew - geoffw, Magdalene, Sprachprofi
 Hindi - Sooniye, YnEoS
Indonesian - redflag, Serpent
Kannada - IBEP
 Karelian - Serpent
 Malay - YnEoS
 Persian - Druckfehler
Sanskrit - Anya, Lampang, Luso
 Tagalog - Stelle
Telugu - YnEoS
Thai - Lampang, YnEoS
Edited by Luso on 16 March 2015 at 3:13pm 8 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Luso Hexaglot Senior Member Portugal Joined 6053 days ago 819 posts - 1812 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, French, EnglishC2, GermanB1, Italian, Spanish Studies: Sanskrit, Arabic (classical) | Message 3 of 113 26 December 2014 at 11:49pm | IP Logged |
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Resources, Links, Tools
Please note that most of these links were provided by team members from 2014. I cannot confirm whether they are valid and/or unchanged. Regarding some of the sites, I can't even read what's written (there's team Rare for you)! I'd appreciate if team members could validate the links in their presentation post. Thank you. Team Rare's 2014 thread. Arabic Free Arabic E-books Egyptian Arabic Dialect Course The Arabic Student Basic Egyptian Videos Egyptian Arabic on YouTube ArabicPod101 Benny's steps to become fluent in Arabic in 3 Months The University of Texas at Austin - Arabic The University of Texas at Austin - Aswaat Arabiyya Georgian Geo*words IPTV.GE - TV portal artarea.tv digplanet - Georgian grammar The Georgian language learn101.org - Georgian E LEARNING GEO Civil press Colis Dakalebi YouTube channel Onion alphabet Hebrew The University of Texas at Austin - Hebrew The University of Texas at Austin - Yours Truly בינינו Teach Me Hebrew. Grammar lessons, dialogues, Anki decks. Learn Hebrew Verbs. Conjugations of common verbs by gender, tense, and number. Also includes the verb root. Do It in Hebrew. Hindi Hindi comics Indonesian Khabar Southeast Asia hugemanga.com Tagalog Kalye Speak: podcast with short dialogues and cultural explanations Children's videos on YouTube: cartoons, songs and stories Tagalog Phrases: thousands of Tagalog sentences with audio and translations Tagalog for Beginners: grammar overview on UniLang Tagalog Learning Links: huge mess of free links, organized into thematic units Pimsleur Tagalog: first 15 lessons Memrise decks: Basic Tagalog Essential Tagalog Foundation Tagalog Hacking Tagalog (be careful - some errors in the last few levels) Generic fsi-languages.yojik.eu - Foreign Service Institute courses http://gloss.dliflc.edu/ - G.L.O.S.S. audiovisual materials http://www.bliubliu.com - read graded texts and improve your vocabulary http://tedxtalks.ted.com/browse/talks-by-language - TEDx talks in various languages, some with subtitles http://www.childrenslibrary.org/ - Children's books in many languages including very rare ones (use Advanced Search by language) Edited by Luso on 10 January 2015 at 10:39am 5 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Luso Hexaglot Senior Member Portugal Joined 6053 days ago 819 posts - 1812 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, French, EnglishC2, GermanB1, Italian, Spanish Studies: Sanskrit, Arabic (classical) | Message 4 of 113 26 December 2014 at 11:49pm | IP Logged |
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CHALLENGES
January challenge: "Sell" your language to the team: Anya - Sanskrit druckfehler - Persian Expugnator - Georgian geoffw - Hebrew Luso - Arabic & Sanskrit redflag - Indonesian Sooniye - Albanian & Hindi Sprachprofi - Hebrew Stelle - Tagalog Teango - Hawaiian tristano - Dutch Zireael - Arabic February: Describe an unique cultural feature related to your language(s): Anya - Sanskrit Expugnator - Georgian geoffw - Hebrew - #1 geoffw - Hebrew - #2 Stelle - Tagalog Edited by Luso on 25 February 2015 at 3:58pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5548 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 5 of 113 27 December 2014 at 1:08am | IP Logged |
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Mahalo (thanks) for stepping up as our team leader, Luso!
Let me briefly introduce myself here. This will be my sixth Team TAC, and I've chosen to study Hawaiian and Irish in 2015, with Hawaiian as my chosen rare language for this team. I'll also be working on my Russian, although this is not strictly a part of my plan for this challenge. My goal for Hawaiian whilst on this team is to progress from beginner (A1) level to the beginnings of basic conversational proficiency and fluency (approx. B1+/B2) by the end of the year, and change my profile status for Hawaiian to "speaks". Please feel free to add my new language log for the 2015 TAC to our roster: Five Little Birds + 1, TAC 2015. Your comment on prodigal TACers migrating back home for a hopeful blue ribbon did make me laugh, by the way. I'll endeavor to update with posts on a more regular basis here next year ;), and I look forward to us all journeying together to reach our goals, and learning about each other's interesting rare languages along the way. Edited by Teango on 01 May 2015 at 7:21pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Luso Hexaglot Senior Member Portugal Joined 6053 days ago 819 posts - 1812 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, French, EnglishC2, GermanB1, Italian, Spanish Studies: Sanskrit, Arabic (classical) | Message 6 of 113 27 December 2014 at 1:29am | IP Logged |
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I'll now present myself: this is my fourth TAC and I'll be participating in this team with Arabic (B1 => B2) and Sanskrit (A1=> A2).
These levels are just estimations, as CEFR levels are generally considered not to be very accurate when dealing with non-European languages. Arabic background: I've studied this difficult language during 5 years (10 semesters). In theory, I've finished the C1 level, but this is very far from the truth. A better estimate would be a B1 in progress. My goal for 2015 is to refresh and consolidate. Sanskrit background: After one year of study, I'm beginning to understand the dimension of the task before me. I consider my level to be an A1 in progress. I'm also trying my hand at Turkic languages, in this non-TAC challenge. Edited by Luso on 27 December 2014 at 1:49am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6589 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 7 of 113 27 December 2014 at 4:12am | IP Logged |
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I'll be using this log (link points to page 27 - there's none yet but I think this is where Tac 2015 will start for me).
This is my 5th TAC if we count the original one that started in the summer of 2007. I can guarantee that I'll be learning some uncommon languages, but I'm honestly not sure what to list. My rarest language is undoubtedly Karelian, my most serious commitment to a language not covered by a team is to Dutch. Then there's also Belarusian, which is covered by another team but not studied even by Chung. Finally, there are Indonesian and Yiddish, which are currently on hold but which this team makes me eager to give more attention to. Well, with Yiddish it also depends on the materials. Most of all, I'm looking forward to sharing the experience of learning uncommon/weird languages, and getting ideas even for such relatively common ones as Croatian or Danish. I don't think I qualify as more than A2 in any of these languages - and I've forgotten all Yiddish apart from one letter (but in the Latin alphabet my comprehension is close to that of Dutch). Oh and I know all the vocabulary of toki pona (120 words ;)), and I permanently crave to go back to it. (I'm also fascinated by Sanskrit, and I've been thinking of learning the Indonesian words of Sanskrit origin along with the original Devanagari spelling) Also, are the 60 days counted since any recent log post or since the latest post concerning Team Rare? Edited by Serpent on 27 December 2014 at 4:24am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Zireael Triglot Senior Member Poland Joined 4643 days ago 518 posts - 636 votes Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, Spanish Studies: German, Sign Language, Tok Pisin, Arabic (Yemeni), Old English | Message 8 of 113 27 December 2014 at 9:23am | IP Logged |
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I'll be using the log from last year link
This is my third TAC, and as usual it concerns Arabic. The plans are the same as last year (from A1+ to A2 or maybe more). I'd really love to get out of the beginner ditch. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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