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| theyweed Senior Member Poland Joined 3747 days ago 23 posts - 33 votes Speaks: English | Message 1 of 5 10 March 2015 at 3:08pm | IP Logged |
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Just wanted to know whether you have some experience as far as language gathering is concerned.
We've managed to get ~20 people involved, but we crave for something more than small-talks. Do you have any idea how such a meeting might look like. I've been thinking about making those, who've reached C1/C2 tutors. Of course it'd involve a great commitment, but on the other hand it'd be a great experience, for I've seen mentioned somewhere that teaching other people makes one learn faster. OK, so why would it require an enormous involvement? The idea is to print a text written in a given language and then discuss it - a tutor would ask question, explain unknown notions (without reference to native language definitions, but using his surrounding and creativity to elucidate some issues), everything in total immersion enviroment. The matching pairs small talks (A1-A1 etc.), principally A level seem to have no sense to me and there are two reasons that make think of it as an idle undertaking. The first is rather staightforward: it stands to reason that a conversation held by people who have only rudimental knowledge of a language is very limited and brings about to tedious topics. Mimicry of scenes in a bar or in a hotel (unless someone knows that they will use a language only as a utensil of survive in a country X) is just boring. The second issue is that speaking is hampered by a well-grounded concern about co-speaker level and we'd rather avoid hearing someone who constantly uses bad structures etc. I'm aware of a fact that the chance of success here is rather small, so I'd need more down-to-earth idea. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6844 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes  Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 5 10 March 2015 at 8:01pm | IP Logged |
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Have you seen this thread?
Polyglot Gathering Berlin 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| garyb Triglot Senior Member ScotlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5142 days ago 1468 posts - 2413 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, French Studies: Spanish | Message 3 of 5 11 March 2015 at 10:49am | IP Logged |
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What kind of gathering are you talking about? A big one-off thing like the above Polyglot Gathering, or a regular event like a Meetup for people to come and practise languages?
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| theyweed Senior Member Poland Joined 3747 days ago 23 posts - 33 votes Speaks: English | Message 4 of 5 14 March 2015 at 11:29am | IP Logged |
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Actually I've been thinking about a meetup-like-meeting, avoiding at the same time the usual meetup
form, which seems kinda challenging, as I lack an idea how it might look like. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5701 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin | Message 5 of 5 14 March 2015 at 12:41pm | IP Logged |
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I need some input here too! A friend and I started a meetup, and because we didn't know what else to do we started to make a bilingual version of the Taboo game, and at the meetups we would do some catching up, some introductions, playing the game together, and then conversations would develop, but often between people who knew each other before or between native speakers of the same language. One issue, of course, is that the other group is in a different situation, they have to live in a foreign country and learn its language quickly, while for us it's mostly a personal interest or something we want to use some time in the future.
Now we got the feedback that we should do something else, but I don't know what to do. That is, I don't expect most of the group members to use those meetups for intensive learning, but I'd like them to get to know new people, to use their target language whenever they can, and I hope to develop a better group dynamic to make the evening more enjoyable. And whatever we do shouldn't be expensive. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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