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TAC 2010, Team K, Teango - GE SP SW RU | ||
Tags: Kanji | Turkish | Listening-Reading (L-R) | Swedish | Total Annihilation Challenge (TAC) | Russian | German | French | Spanish | ||
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| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5554 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 177 of 185 28 November 2010 at 5:44am | IP Logged | |||||
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@Medialis
Thanks for this great image! I feel all Christmassy now and want to bring a similar homely glow to my future two-up-two-down. Plotnik also translates as "carpenter", I think, which got me unconsciously humming this classic song a little later on (strange how the mind works sometimes). :) @meramarina I can just imagine you having a bundle of fun with a clicker-counter, and I must admit, it can get quite addictive sometimes for me too (you can start to find all sorts of things to count, just to satisfy the compelling fix for clicks). Love the video clip incidentally. When the Finance Minister tries to say "Bündnerfleisch", and ends up just blurting out "Bün..", it just cracks me up. This was excellent timing too, as I'd only finished watching "Der Untergang", with credits still rolling, and was in dire need of cheering up. Vielen Dank! [edit] Edited by Teango on 28 November 2010 at 7:57am 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 5554 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 178 of 185 15 December 2010 at 3:45pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Just a little note here to let everyone know I've finally moved into my new house. Unpacking all my boxes of language books after these past few months on the move is like getting reacquainted with long lost friends. When I saw my Kodansha dictionary and Heisig cards, I knew I was home again. And you can rest assured my first duty will be to find them all a suitable cosy cubbyhole!
All the ISPs I've contacted tell me they won't be able to hook me up with internet until mid-late January, so I'll be using mobile broadband (a usb plugin) and my small town local library to help me log on to the forum for now. This means I won't be able to check threads and submit posts as often as I'd like to over the coming month, so apologies in advance for any delays or oversights. But who knows...once everything's unpacked and found its place, it could well be a blessing in disguise and encourage me to put in more hours of Russian. :) Edited by Teango on 15 December 2010 at 3:46pm 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 5554 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 179 of 185 21 December 2010 at 6:21pm | IP Logged | |||||
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FINAL WEEKS OF THE 2010 TAC CHALLENGE
SUMMARY With just a few days left till Christmas, it's time to try and sum up what I've been up to with languages this year. Glancing back over my Team TAC posts, I've drawn up an overview of the hours I logged and the resources I used for each language in 2010 (which include German, Spanish, Swedish, Russian, Japanese, Turkish, Ancient Egyptian and British Sign Language): [Abbreviations: s=study, c=study-and-click, l=listen, r=read, lr=listen-read, f=film, t=tv, w=website, d=dubbing, u=subtitles, *=unfinished] --- GERMAN (140h active, 200h+ passive, lots of immersion whilst living in Germany, rose from B1 to B2 (C1 in reading skills)) Courses: - Berlitz Deutsch - Stufe 3-8 [s]* - Upgrade your German [s]* Books/Audiobooks: - Bernhard Schlink, Der Vorleser [lr] - Franz Kafka, Die Verwandlung [lr]* - Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha [lr] - Patrick Süskind, Das Parfüm [lr]* - Stephen King, Qual [r]* - Thomas Mann, Der Tod in Venedig [lr]* Podcasts: - Schlaflos in München [w,l]* Tv/Video: - Southpark [t,d]* - Stromberg - seasons 1-2 [t] Films: - Alfie [f,d] - Center Stage [f,d] - Constantine [f,d] - Der Untergang [f] - Die Fetten Jahre sind vorbei [f] - Footloose [f,d] - French Kiss [f,d] - Good Bye Lenin [f] - Im Juli [f] - Interview with the Vampire [f,d] - Mondscheintarif [f]* - Scrooged [f,d] - The Secret of My Success [f,d] - Watchmen [f,d] - Young Sherlock Holmes [f,d] - Zoolander [f,d] - Zulu [f,d] --- SPANISH (185h active, 50h passive, 1 week in Barcelona, from total beginner to B1 (B2 in reading skills)) Books/Audiobooks: - Antoine De Saint-Exupery, El Principito [lr,c,l] - J K Rowling, Harry Potter y la Piedra Filosofal [c]* - Juan Ramon Jimenez, Platero y Yo [lr]* Grammar: - ¡Búscalo! [s]* Tv/Video: - El Internado - season 1 [t] - Yabla, LoMásTv [w,s,lr,l]* Tuition: - One-to-one home tuition [8 hours] --- SWEDISH (55h active, from total beginner to C1 in reading skills) Books/Audiobooks: - J K Rowling, Harry Potter och de vises sten [c,lr]* Films: - Sällskapsresan eller Finns det svenskt kaffe på grisfesten [f,u] - Snowroller - Sällskapsresan II [f,u] - Såsom i en spegel [f,u] - Det sjunde inseglet [f,u] --- RUSSIAN (34h active, 8h passive, still hovering somewhere around A2) Courses: - Princeton Russian course [c,lr]* Books/Audiobooks: - Mikhail Bulgakov, Мастер и Маргарита [c,lr]* - Yevgeny Zamyatin, Мы [c,lr]* --- JAPANESE (200 kanji + ongoing review) Books/websites: - Heisig, Remembering the Kanji I [s]* - Reviewing the Kanji website, along with kanji wallposter [w,s]* --- TURKISH (7h study, and a little immersion whilst in Germany) Courses: - Linguaphone PDQ Turkish [s]* - Pimsleur introductory course - 10 lessons [s] --- ANCIENT EGYPTIAN (80+ hieroglyphs) Books/websites: - Collier & Manley, How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs [s]* - Hieroglyphs Hierowriter [w,s]* --- BRITISH SIGN LANGUAGE (265 signs) Books/websites: - Communication Link - third edition [s]* - Signed music videos by lovesbth [lr]* WANDERLUST CONFESSION BOX There are so many temptations on my shelves and littered elsewhere about the house, that it's going to be near impossible to stay away from them all in 2011. Every year that passes is a year further away from level-headed linguistic redemption...lol ;) TEANGO’S WORD/PHRASE OF THE WEEK "снежный человек" (aka in Tibetan: yeti; American Indian (Salish): Sasquatch; also big foot, the Abominable Snowman) - that's what someone said my footprints through the snow in the back garden reminded them of this week (oh no - finally, I've been discovered!). NOTES Whoosh, whoosh...that was the sound of my life spinning round and round in a chilling whirlwind of domestic issues last month; slurp, gulp, mm-ahhhhhhh...that's the wonderful warm homely sound of a guy who's now settled back in proverbial Kansas and has finally set up his cosy language den with a hot cocoa to accompany him on a snowy winter's day. :) It's been a real roller-coaster of a year, that's for sure, but looking back over all the posts and bizarre little language projects, I hope I've finally taken some positive steps in the right direction on the long road to polyglottery. Experimenting with and refining various approaches, alongside finally putting self-baked theories into practice, has helped set me on a more confident footing with future language study, and has brought order to what was just years of unproductive pottering up till now. The helpful advice and wealth of experience of people here on the forum has been a constant source of inspiration and very encouraging. I'd particularly like to give a special big shout-out to my amazing teammate M. Medialis, who not only achieved so much this year in his own studies (especially Japanese), but who made the experience thoroughly fun and enjoyable and never failed to motivate or make me smile with his energetic and imaginative posts. I'd also like to thank the other members of Team K, Aloysius and Papillon, for their initial support and to wish them the very best in their goals for 2011. As for the rest of the year, I think I'm just going to finish up with a bit of Russian study and Zamyatin around Christmas, and then...unable to suppress the excitement any longer...start thinking seriously about next year's challenge. And not unlike a naughty child who roots around in his parent's closet for unwrapped pressies before the big day, I'm heading off to set down some initial goals or ideas for my team log in next year's TAC after this post. So as this probably wraps it up for my year's log, there's not much left to do but to wish you all a wonderful Christmas and many more enjoyable hours of language learning in 2011 and beyond! :) Edited by Teango on 26 December 2010 at 5:34pm 4 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| aloysius Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6238 days ago 226 posts - 291 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, German Studies: French, Greek, Italian, Russian | Message 180 of 185 21 December 2010 at 9:02pm | IP Logged | |||||
Very interesting year, Teango!
And, it sounds like you're ready for new challenges ...
And I wish you the same! /Aloysius 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| M. Medialis Diglot TAC 2010 Winner Senior Member Sweden Joined 6355 days ago 397 posts - 508 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: Russian, Japanese, French | Message 181 of 185 23 December 2010 at 1:31am | IP Logged | |||||
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Your year has been stunningly awesome Teango! As you said you have successfully transformed all those endless language learning theories into practice (I admit that I've also spent some years in the thrilling but unproductive activity of reading about how others learn languages..).
--Going from having been a devote method-miner to becoming a full-fledged linguistic athlete. => W o w And the best is still ahead! Merry Christmas. :D 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| 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 183 of 185 24 December 2010 at 6:27pm | IP Logged | |||||
I just wanted to drop in and say that I have really enjoyed reading this log, and your mini logs too, especially the Swedish one. Well done! It looks like you've made a lot of progress.
Merry Christmas and best wishes for the New Year! Edited by mick33 on 24 December 2010 at 6:29pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 6140 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 184 of 185 24 December 2010 at 9:48pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Have a wonderful Christmas and New Years, Teango! Your log has been one of my favorites to read all year and it's been exciting to follow your journeys through German, Spanish, Russian, and Swedish. I'm looking forward to seeing what you have planned for next year. :)
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