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Tags: Super Challenge | Catalan | Ancient Greek | Turkish | Polyglot | Arabic | Total Annihilation Challenge (TAC) | Italian | Japanese | French | Spanish | ||
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| 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 1 of 331 19 December 2011 at 10:15pm | IP Logged | ||
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2015 Team Caesar
French, Italian, Spanish (starts on p. 39) Serpent: Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, Romanian, Catalan YnEoS: French, Romanian, strong interest in other Romance languages liammcg: Italian, French TimmyTurner93: Portuguese garyb: French, Italian sillygoose1: Italian, Portuguese Sooniye: Spanish, dabbling in French and Italian tristano: French, Spanish Kerrie: Spanish, Portuguese, maybe French and Italian Anya: French, Portuguese, Italian, strong interest in other Romance languages Ccaesar: Italian suzukaze: Spanish, French, strong interest in Portuguese jesm86: Portuguese ____________________________________________________________ ___ 2014 Deuxième Yürüküler Forza Multi TAC: Turkish, Italian, French (p. 26) Past TAC Teams: 2012 Romantics: French, Spanish, Italian, Catalan. Side trips into Derja. 2013 PAX: Spanish, French (p. 13) Side trips to Ancient Greece and Tokyo [2012] This will be my first TAC, and I'm looking forward to working with you all this coming year! My long-term goal is to become proficient in 7 languages before I turn 50. Although this is becoming a ""short-term goal with each passing year. For 2012, I want to bump up my French and Spanish from an intermediate level to a solid B-1 or B-2. I want to reach a level where I can read novels comfortably, understand movies, and maintain the languages without strain. I'm also planning some detours into Italian and maybe Catalan along the way. Here's my rough plan: First Quarter Emphasis on French. I took two years of French in college, but didn't maintain it. In 2011 I finished Pimsleur 1 and 2, FSI Volume 1, and the passive wave of Assimil French with Ease. For this quarter I want to finish the Active wave of French with Ease, get as far as I can with Assimil Using French, and perhaps keep up with FSI Volume 2. I've also been slowly working through Assimil L'arabe Sans Peine, and will start on Arabe tunisien de poche. I don't want to TAC with Arabic, but it helps that my texts are French-based. I will take two breaks from French to flirt with Catalan and Italian, each for a couple weeks. It's totally foolish and my brain will probably explode. I'm gonna do it anyway. Semester Exams I hit the road in April for a 30-day wander through Barcelona, Rome, Tunisia, and Paris. I will be putting what I learned to the test. Second Quarter Nice and easy: I want to reinforce my French. There are too many times where I've reached a good level in a language while traveling, and then let it all fade when I return home. And it fades fast! I'll focus on reading, starting with parallel texts and graphic novels, and hopefully moving on to some solid literature. Madame Bovary, the works of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, and The Elegance of the Hedgehog (L'élégance du hérisson) are all on my bucket-list. Third and Fourth Quarters All Spanish, all the time. In 2011 I finished Pimsleur 1 and 2, and half of Assimil Spanish with Ease. In 2012 I'll finish Spanish with Ease, and if I'm feeling confident I'll try the French-based Perfectionnement Espagnol. Final Exams Three weeks in México: Guanajuato, Oaxaca, and Chiapas. Recovery It would be beyond fantastic if I were able to read modern Spanish literature at the end of the year. Edited by kanewai on 02 June 2015 at 12:31am 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 2 of 331 19 December 2011 at 10:18pm | IP Logged | ||
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TAC 2012 - The Romantics The Team TAC’12 ɬ and The Romantics - Mani in Lux. Mani, Luxembourg: French, Luxembourgish, Kurdish; probably Russian, Portuguese Gary’s TAC 2012 - The Romantics Garyb, Scotland: French, Italian and perhaps Spanish Michelle’s TAC 2012 Log - The Romantics Mcsice, United States: Spanish and perhaps French or Italian Anamsc TAC 2012-català, français, español Anamsc, Andorra Lianne’s TAC 2012 - The Romantics Lianne, Canada: French, Esperanto and maybe Toki Pona {review) TAC’12-Paco’s Español Log-The Romantics PacoBell, United States Pesahson’s TAC 2012 - French Pesahson, Poland Hendrek’s Italian TAC - The Romantics Hendrek, United States: Italian, Persian Songlines’ TAC: French and...? Songlines, Canada: French, Mandarin and perhaps Italian TAC 2012 - J’aimerais être bilingue Microsnout, Canada: French (Québécoise) Moving to France PinkCordelia, France: French, Italian TAC 2012 Español + Deutsch (team Žá) Kyknos, Czech Republic Kerrie’s TAC ’12 Team Žá / Romantics Log Kerrie, US: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Croatian/Bosnian Hasta La Fluidez, Siempre! Ligador: Spanish and German BlackDahlia’s TAC 2012 Romantics Log BlackDahlia, US: French Tw561’s TAC / The Romantics Tw561, US: Italian, Spanish Mepisevaerg’s TAC Log 2012 Mepisevaerg, US: German, Mandarin, Spanish Luso's Log Luso, Portugal: Italian, German, Arabic Ar, Fr, Māori, Gàidhlig Team ɬ & Romantic Quabazaa, New Zealand: Arabic, French, Māori, Gàidhlig My Spanish Log TAC 2012 Romantics Dearwanderlust, United States: Spanish updated 24 Jan 12 Edited by kanewai on 25 January 2012 at 8:07pm 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 6134 days ago 2150 posts - 3229 votes Speaks: English*, German, Croatian, Greek, French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Catalan, Persian, Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Ukrainian | Message 3 of 331 20 December 2011 at 12:06am | IP Logged | ||
Yes! That's my strategy for everything! Good luck with all your languages this year! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| pesahson Diglot Senior Member Poland Joined 5720 days ago 448 posts - 840 votes Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: French, Portuguese, Norwegian | Message 4 of 331 20 December 2011 at 8:15am | IP Logged | ||
Hi Kanewai, welcome to the team. :) I love your idea of exams! It's definitely a great motivation. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Lianne Senior Member Canada thetoweringpile.blog Joined 5107 days ago 284 posts - 410 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Esperanto, Toki Pona, German, French | Message 5 of 331 20 December 2011 at 4:34pm | IP Logged | ||
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I like how you added all our countries to the list of team-mates. I hadn't noticed how spread out we are!
Best of luck! 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 6 of 331 23 December 2011 at 1:19am | IP Logged | ||
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I've been getting my materials ready to kick off the New Year and TAC right! Assimil Using French is in the mail, and I've downloaded (and already started) Volume 2 of FSI French.
I'm still struggling with finding the right Italian materials. A friend loaned me her complete set of Pimsleur Italian - all three volumes. This was a score! Although I'm not sure I have the fortitude to do another full Pimsleur course. I've downloaded FSI Italian FAST, and I think that might be my main focus. I also took a look at "Teach Yourself Catalan" book at the library. It wasn't bad, but it was a bit more linear than I wanted. There was a chapter for pronouns, a chapter for each tense, a chapter for genders, etc. I'm too used to the more holistic approaches of Assimil/FSI/Pimsleur type courses to go back to this. I'll keep poking around. 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 7 of 331 24 December 2011 at 12:09am | IP Logged | ||
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I picked up Michel Thomas Italian at the library. It's only 2 cd's, so I'm doing this more to see if I want to buy it or not. I want to do an Italian intensive, and I don't think Pimsleur is made for that.
My first impressions are mixed. I like the pacing, and the students aren't as irritating as I thought they would be. I am worried about his accent, though - he has a strong Polish accent in English, and I imagine his Italian would be equally Polacized. Or whatever the Polish equivalent of Anglicized would be. The bigger issue is the, ahem, clarity of the digital recordings. It is very, very clear. I can hear his saliva swishing around. Did they record this from inside his mouth? He reminds me of those older gentlemen you meet who are growing hard of hearing and so stand just a little bit too close when they talk and you're trying to listen to what they're saying but damn they really are standing too close and it is starting to get just a bit uncomfortable. I might go ahead and buy the ten cd set. I would like to know personally how MT compares to Pimsleur, and most people agree that MT is better suited to cramming. I'm also jumping way ahead of myself. I told myself: no Italian until I've finished my French. I just wanted to peak ahead a little bit. I promise I won't do it again ... or at least until TAC 2012 really kicks off ... side note: Whoever stocked our public library should have consulted with HTLAL first. There are shelves full of sub-par programs (Learn French in Ten Days! Making Out in Gaelic! Speak Ancient Greek with the Five Minutes a Day Method! ). And yet they only have the short versions and the introductions for the courses that actually work. Edited by kanewai on 24 December 2011 at 12:13am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5387 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 8 of 331 24 December 2011 at 2:35am | IP Logged | ||
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Hello, Kanewai. Welcome to TAC 2012. =)
I'm focusing on French and Italian next year, too (among a few others). Have you looked at the Living Language Ultimate Italian series? They're fairly linear, too, but I like them a lot better than the Teach Yourself series. Plus, if you have a fair amount of French (even passive), you can probably fly through them pretty quickly. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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