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| doviende Diglot Senior Member Canada languagefixatio Joined 5989 days ago 533 posts - 1245 votes  Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Hindi, Swedish, Portuguese | Message 97 of 202 29 July 2011 at 7:23pm | IP Logged |
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Thanks, Sprachprofi, for organizing this and encouraging me to sign up. I've signed up using Twitter, and I'll be studying Hindi intensively during the 6 weeks.
I'll be working through "Hindi ohne Mühe" (the German version of Assimil Hindi), and "Teach Yourself Hindi", since they both seem to have some great content. I've already done some part-time work, so I can sound out the letters of the Devanagari script, and I've learned some very very basic vocab from the first few chapters of Assimil. Hindi is much more commonly spoken than French here in Vancouver, so near the end I plan to go out and speak with people around town, and hopefully find a bookstore somewhere that might have some novels to read. I'll have a little bit of interference in the middle of August, since I have some couchsurfers coming from Mexico, so I want to get some Spanish practice in before then, but I should still have lots of time left over for my Hindi studies. If I estimate around 1 Assimil chapter per day on average, then I should be able to finish the book (since I've already done about 10 chapters out of 55. The book claims that this should bring me to a B1 level. I hope I'll be able to get more work in than that, and work through Teach Yourself as well, which should be OK since they'll have some overlap. One problem I still have is finding some Hindi audio online. I've got one audiobook, but I'd like to have several hours of audio from a variety of speakers so that I can really get the sounds and rhythm into my head. Now that I think about it, the BBC Hindi site might be able to satisfy this for me, even though it'll be a while before I actually understand what they're saying. Just for reference, when I was learning German while I had a full-time job, I still managed to get in about 21 hours per week of study time (much of it from watching TV shows and reading books while listening to audiobooks). I encourage everyone to use this contest as encouragement to find new and creative ways to fit more time in with a language, and to push yourselves to do even more than you thought possible. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| booze007 Groupie GermanyRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5095 days ago 41 posts - 45 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 98 of 202 29 July 2011 at 9:20pm | IP Logged |
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wow ! its about time somebody created separate threads for each language ,
so we can share resources ,tips and tricks ! @doviende! which level is your German now ? hindi ! wow ! i come from India but i cant speak Hindi since i came from the extreme south of India. however i can tell you the exact context of what they are taking about, but if you ask me word by word in the same sentence i wouldn't have clue ! bottom line i can understand but i cannot speak ! no clue how to go about it ! just opposite of my German :P 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| aloysius Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6243 days ago 226 posts - 291 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, German Studies: French, Greek, Italian, Russian | Message 99 of 202 31 July 2011 at 4:20pm | IP Logged |
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I'm in for Russian.
Mainly L-R and Assimil I should think. /aloysius 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| smallwhite Pentaglot Senior Member Australia Joined 5311 days ago 537 posts - 1045 votes Speaks: Cantonese*, English, Mandarin, French, Spanish | Message 100 of 202 31 July 2011 at 4:59pm | IP Logged |
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Hi,
I'm new to Twitter. I (think I) sent my registration but nothing happened afterwards. Am I supposed to receive a registration confirmation immediately, and am I supposed to appear on the http://twitter.com/#!/6WCBot page and the http://6wc.learnlangs.com/ list immediately? Or do I have to wait because things are manual? I'm already following the bot. Thanks. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6473 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 101 of 202 31 July 2011 at 7:23pm | IP Logged |
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The bot responds within 5 minutes. When you're registered, you'll get a reply via Twitter
and you will also be listed at http://6wc.learnlangs.com/ immediately. I don't see your registration - what is your Twitter name? Did you maybe forget the @6WCBot in your message? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| smallwhite Pentaglot Senior Member Australia Joined 5311 days ago 537 posts - 1045 votes Speaks: Cantonese*, English, Mandarin, French, Spanish | Message 102 of 202 31 July 2011 at 7:48pm | IP Logged |
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Thanks, Sprachprofi.
Edit: problem solved now after setting tweets to be public instead of private. Thanks. Edited by smallwhite on 31 July 2011 at 8:37pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| jdmoncada Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5037 days ago 470 posts - 741 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Finnish Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 103 of 202 31 July 2011 at 8:22pm | IP Logged |
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I had separately made a resolution to study more Japanese, so I used the twitter bot to sign up for the challenge with that, (though I have a longing for German with all this discussion of it).
I did not participate in the previous 6WC, so I'm unclear as to how we report hours. Please someone help! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6473 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 104 of 202 31 July 2011 at 8:52pm | IP Logged |
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Smallwhite, seems the problem was that you had "protected" that tweet or maybe your
account, anyway it wasn't visible to the general public so the bot couldn't see it. If you intend to keep your tweets private, you have to allow the bot to follow you, so that it can see what you write. Great to have you join us as well, jdmoncada. To report study time, tweet something like @6WCBot I studied 1 hour and 45 minutes of #Deutsch using #Anki today. Ich spreche noch kein Deutsch. OR @6WCBot I studied 25min of #Japanese #subtitles today. Tweets must contain @6WCBot and time and hashtag with language (#Deutsch or #German or #de or #deu), the rest is optional. Note that if you're watching a movie or otherwise doing something where Japanese is not getting 100% of your attention, you have to adjust your study time downward. For example, the tweeted 25 minutes may be for a video of 50 minutes or more, depending on how attentively you were following those subtitles and trying to learn from them. Putting #subtitles is not required; it's just for your own benefit and you can use any hashtag you want. The bot keeps track of hashtags and can later tell you how much time you spent on each. I guess to be really scientific you could use a double hashtag system to reflect each activity and each skill you're developing: #subtitles #reading #web #reading #NHK #listening #TeachYourself #grammar #Anki #vocabulary The how-to for the bot is at http://6wc.learnlangs.com/howto Edited by Sprachprofi on 31 July 2011 at 8:53pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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