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| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6468 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes  Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 1 of 220 15 April 2011 at 9:15pm | IP Logged | ||
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So I know that two friends of mine on this forum are planning to intensively study
Spanish in May, and I want to do that, too. Can we declare it a 6 Week Challenge on short notice? Theoretically, you would not have to choose Spanish, you could do any language, though it's a lot more interesting if a lot of people study the same language - then we can compare our methods and exchange tips. It has to be a language at which you're B1 or less though (lower intermediate level), preferably an absolute beginner. I'm planning to have a Twitter bot keeping track of people's hours, like for the "Read more or die" challenge. I find that this ability to compare yourself to the others adds a lot to my motivation. Participating in this tracking is not required to participate in the challenge though. Who is in? 1. Sprachprofi Edited by Sprachprofi on 15 April 2011 at 9:38pm 9 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| doviende Diglot Senior Member Canada languagefixatio Joined 5984 days ago 533 posts - 1245 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Hindi, Swedish, Portuguese | Message 2 of 220 15 April 2011 at 10:06pm | IP Logged | ||
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Woohoo!
Excellent idea. I did some Spanish at university in 2003, although I never really got far in actual skill. I remember horribly sucking at the final spoken test, since we never really did any speaking in class...mostly a bunch of grammar rules and weird batches of vocabulary. I'm looking for suggestions for materials. I'm hoping to find some interesting books, and I think my brother has a book of Pablo Neruda poetry somewhere. Any recommendations of authors? I'll probably also read some Latin American news on Narco News (although I just noticed now that they have further translations into Portuguese, Italian, German, and Dutch - narconews.com ) I'm looking forward to seeing Sprachprofi's twitter bot in action :) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| WingSuet Triglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 5349 days ago 169 posts - 211 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, German Studies: Cantonese | Message 3 of 220 15 April 2011 at 10:14pm | IP Logged | ||
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Are we restricted to one language only? I'm currently studying Cantonese as my main language, but I also take Spanish classes in school so I thought that it could be kind of fun to compare my Spanish progress with you guys as well as my Cantonese since it is my main focus. Although, I wouldn't be studying Spanish intensively so maybe there's no point in having both language. In that case I'd rather choose Cantonese. Whichever way, I am in :) Edited by WingSuet on 15 April 2011 at 10:18pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| nerxs Triglot Newbie Belgium Joined 4970 days ago 4 posts - 4 votes Speaks: German*, English, French Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Latin | Message 4 of 220 15 April 2011 at 10:22pm | IP Logged | ||
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Sounds great!
But I am still unsure wether to tackle Spanish or continue with my Mandarin studies. Maybe I could achieve more in 6 weeks learning Spanish, than in 3 months learning Mandarin. So let's try Spanish. What materials are you going to use? 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 5 of 220 16 April 2011 at 12:12am | IP Logged | ||
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Spanish won't work for me because I already speak it, but I'll watch eagerly from the sidelines and can offer help to anyone that needs it.
...but you said that we could theoretically choose any language? Hm... In that case I choose Polish. I don't have Twitter though, so I won't be keeping track of my hours on there with everyone else -- is that a problem? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Amerykanka Hexaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5169 days ago 657 posts - 890 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Polish, Latin, Ancient Greek, Russian | Message 6 of 220 16 April 2011 at 1:41am | IP Logged | ||
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I am interested in doing this, but could someone explain exactly what it entails? I am studying Spanish intensively in May regardless in preparation for my trip to Nicaragua, but I think it would be fun to do a challenge. I don't have Twitter, though.
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 budonoseito Pro Member United States budobeyondtechnRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5803 days ago 261 posts - 344 votes Studies: French, Japanese Personal Language Map | Message 7 of 220 16 April 2011 at 1:45am | IP Logged | ||
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Maybe next time. I am swamped right now.
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| Vos Diglot Senior Member Australia Joined 5564 days ago 766 posts - 1020 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Dutch, Polish | Message 8 of 220 16 April 2011 at 4:28am | IP Logged | ||
Some recommendations in regards to authors and sites for learning Spanish quick: Notes In Spanish - Full of podcasts about all different kinds of topics at beginner, intermediate and advanced levels. Word Reference Dictionary - Fantastic online dictionary, and Spanish forums have a wealth of info Spanish News Bites - Short articles on different subjects at all levels, which includes a hover-over dictionary for certain phrases and words, and also has the articles being read by a native Spanish speaker, so you can follow the text allong whilst she's reading. Alba Learning - El Principito (Le Petit Prince) and many other audio books available at this site, including the texts as well. As for authors, I highly recommend Federico García Lorca, who has a collection of poetry books which are bilingual. Original Spanish one side and translated English on the other. Also my internet is going too slow at the moment to find it, by all Paulo Coehlo's books are online in pdf form in Spanish and available to download for free. Not the biggest fan of his work, however they are quite simple to read and the amount of vocab used is quite low, so once you get a bit into it, you will have already covered most of the vocab which will be used later on also. Good learning material. Will try to add the link again later if someone can't find it. Good luck to you all! 13 persons have voted this message useful |
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