Vos Diglot Senior Member Australia Joined 5564 days ago 766 posts - 1020 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Dutch, Polish
| Message 17 of 50 02 December 2009 at 3:39pm | IP Logged |
This sounds fantastic! Definitely in for the TAC and TAC teams.
The teams concept is a great idea, and i think it will definitely help keep the motivation levels up through out the
new year. Especially if there is a good varied mix of native languages within each group. Obviously that depends on
who and how many enter, but hopefully it will work out nicely.
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Astrophel Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5730 days ago 157 posts - 345 votes Speaks: English*, Latin, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Cantonese, Polish, Sanskrit, Cherokee
| Message 18 of 50 02 December 2009 at 5:32pm | IP Logged |
Teams is a good idea...except that if we're learning two languages minimum, it could be a problem. If I'm learning Arabic and Japanese for example, and two of my teammates are also learning Arabic, but no one else is learning Japanese, I'm not going to have as much motivation to learn Japanese as Arabic.
I think we should do one of two things. 1) Have everybody learn a minimum of two languages as planned. 2) Form teams instead, where each team is studying only ONE language, and we keep each other motivated.
Personally I'd rather do teams. That way, we have a safeguard against the burnout that afflicted the last TAC.
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mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5922 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish
| Message 20 of 50 02 December 2009 at 6:19pm | IP Logged |
I am definitely going to participate in TAC 2010. My new log will appear the first week of January given that I'm still doing TAC 2009 and thinking about my study plans and goals for 2010.
Edited by mick33 on 02 December 2009 at 6:22pm
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The Real CZ Senior Member United States Joined 5647 days ago 1069 posts - 1495 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean
| Message 21 of 50 02 December 2009 at 6:41pm | IP Logged |
I'm willing to participate. I wouldn't mind teams, but structuring needs to be worked out for it to be effective.
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NichtGut Groupie United States the-daily-treasure.bRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6330 days ago 65 posts - 74 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French
| Message 22 of 50 02 December 2009 at 6:47pm | IP Logged |
Ok so Anya had a great idea that there is a native speaker of that studied language in each group, but I also think it could be nice if there was an Arabic group, French group, etc. It may be difficult though to find enough people studying Arabic/Russian or whatever to group them together.
So far we have:
Grouping people together by language they are studying
Grouping people together who are at the same level
Grouping people studying random languages
And somewhere in the mix possibly sneaking in a native speaker of that studied language
We have until December 31st so let's keep the ideas running and get more members involved and just go from there.
Anyone else studying French? I'll be studying French and one another language, not sure which one yet.
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-Kupo- Groupie United Kingdom Joined 6065 days ago 84 posts - 84 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: German, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Russian
| Message 23 of 50 03 December 2009 at 12:48am | IP Logged |
The group idea sounds good! However as some of you may note, with my totally multilingual year I would be totally at a loss to what group I would be in. Not sure if many other people would be in the same situation as me. Either way I have made my TAC2010 blog already for individual TAC and will keep a look out on the team situation.
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Aquedita Triglot Senior Member Poland myspace.com/aqueda_v Joined 6012 days ago 154 posts - 164 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese Studies: Mandarin
| Message 24 of 50 03 December 2009 at 12:55am | IP Logged |
Even though my recent challenge was an epic fail, I still feel the urge to try again.
Starting right now. Will update the log shortly.
Edited by Aquedita on 03 December 2009 at 12:55am
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