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| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5332 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 1 of 672 13 December 2011 at 7:21am | IP Logged |
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Welcome to the thread for TAC 2012's Russian team!
We are now a really big group, and we are sorry that we cannot accept any more members. But you are most welcome to visit our threads! This thread will serve as a place for members to discuss any practicalities, and for the members to share their goals, their achievements, their frustrations and all their good ideas. You can get more info on the TAC from the official TAC 2012 thread. As of February 8th, the team consists of: Tecktight: Russian, German, (French, Spanish). Tecktight's log Solfrid Cristin: Russian, German, Greek, (Icelandic, Italian, French, Spanish, Mandarin). Solfrid Cristin's log Teango:Russian, German, Irish, (French, Japanese, Hawaiian, Finnish). Teango's log Aloysius: Russian, French, Italian, (Latin, Icelandic). Aloysius's log M. Medialis: Russian, Japanese, (Mandarin, Portuguese, German, French). M. Medialis's log Ruskivyetr: Russian, German, Spanish, (Ancient Greek, Norwegian, Indonesian). Ruskivetr's log Lynxrunner: Russian, Swedish, (Yoruba, Hindi, Mandarin, Haitian Creole). lynxrunner's log Isabliss_27: Russian, German, (Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish). isabliss's log senor smile: Russian, Latin ( Ukrainian, Spanish, French) senor smile's log Woodsei: Russian, Japanese (German, French) Woodsei's log Ellsworth: Russian, Irish Ellsworth's log fabriciocarraro; Russian, Dutch and Esperanto fabriciocarraro's log Drsarvo Russian, Esperanto Drsarvo's log metroidz Russian metroidz' log playadom Russian, Italian playadom's log jellyfish: Russian, Persian jellyfish's log Tarvos: Russian, French? Tarvos' log mrwarper: Russian, German, Japanese mrwarper's log Mark Zekecoma Russian, German Edited by Solfrid Cristin on 09 February 2012 at 12:58am 4 persons have 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 2 of 672 13 December 2011 at 5:45pm | IP Logged |
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Thanks for starting up a thread for the team, Solfrid, and a big hearty welcome to all my team comrades (including Medialis who I'm keeping my fingers crossed will be joining us very shortly)! Things are already starting to look very promising for next year's TAC, and I have a strong feeling we're all going to make amazing progress in 2012. :)
With regards to my own plans, I'll be keeping the engines ticking over with Russian movies during the next couple of months, but hope to really kick things into action in February when exams and other pressing commitments are safely out of the way. My current goals for 2012 are to reach an advanced level in Russian (I'm hoping for C1 this time), and a good intermediate level (B2 would be more than welcome) in Irish reading and listening skills. Beyond that, I'm playing it by ear for the latter half of the year. I'd also like to take this opportunity to ask for suggestions for our team name and maybe even a fitting yet resplendent motto (like I've noticed in some other teams). To get the ball rolling, I thought I'd throw in a couple of ideas for a name at least, as daft as they may sound... The first idea that jumped into my head was to exploit the Russian/German connection with "Team Alix" (in memory of the last Tsarina of Russia, who was born at the New Palace in Darmstadt as Princess Alix, and whose dad was also the Grand Duke of Hesse - lol, it's probably not hard to guess where I lived last year ;) ). Another possible idea, with our sights on cloudy peaks in 2012 and the forthcoming Olympics, would be to name the team after the highest mountain in Europe, which just so happens to be situated in the Russian Caucasus: "Team Elbrus". Well, that's just a couple of silly suggestions to get things going, and I'm sure you can come up with far better. So please feel free to jump in with anything you think would make a fun and suitable name or motivational mantra. The more suggestions, the merrier! Edited by Teango on 13 December 2011 at 5:50pm 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 3 of 672 13 December 2011 at 5:49pm | IP Logged |
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And Solfrid...hope Julenissen brings you that Mandarin course. ;)
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| Tecktight Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member United States Joined 4974 days ago 227 posts - 327 votes Speaks: English*, Serbian Studies: German, Russian, Estonian | Message 4 of 672 13 December 2011 at 9:45pm | IP Logged |
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Yes, thanks, Solfrid, for starting up the thread! I'm excited for the challenge--I think we have a great team going
and that we will do well as a result! The most important thing, of course, is actually progressing in our languages, while having fun doing so! I'm for either of Teango's suggestions, though I'm leaning towards Elbrus because it's an inactive volcano and I believe we can weave the mountain motif into some sort of motivational scheme. Welcome to all! :) 1 person has 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 5 of 672 13 December 2011 at 10:22pm | IP Logged |
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Russian will be my main focus next year and I'm eager to eventually lift it to another
level. I suppose B2 should be possible and realistic. French also demands some attention and I need to come up with a strategy to go active and start speaking and writing in it. And I would like to go from watching movies with French subtitles to watch them without. Unless I choose to travel to Italy next year Italian will be pure fun and a way to relax when I need a bit of change. Other than that I'm undecided but Latin is the most likely candidate. Solfrid mentioned Icelandic, and I'm tempted to join in ... might be a 6wc. Name and motto are difficult things, but I'm somewhat attracted by Эльбрус. No hurry to decide though. Looking forward to a lot of inspiring team work! And it would be great if M.Medialis would join us. /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 6 of 672 13 December 2011 at 10:26pm | IP Logged |
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Hey everyone! I simply can't resist jumping onboard the Russian team, so count me in. :D
I should warn you beforehand that I have a nice little personality split that will throw me between full-speed Japanese and full-speed Russian when I least expect it. :) My plans are to do heavy progress in Japanese and Russian, and maybe maybe start a new lanugage (Mandarin, Portuguese and German are on my hit-list). And it would be nice to throw in some French LR too. Maybe this will be the year when I break out of my silent mode and finally start to speak Russian fluently. *dreaming* I'm really excited about this team. The countdown has started.. :) Edited by M. Medialis on 13 December 2011 at 11:33pm 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 7 of 672 14 December 2011 at 11:47am | IP Logged |
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I begin by throwing out some mottos, haha. The more we can come up with, the better :)
Russian Team: "If it ain't broke, make it better!" "More is more." "Because civilization begins in Ural." "Float like a matryoshka, sting like a bear" 1 person has 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 8 of 672 14 December 2011 at 5:07pm | IP Logged |
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Welcome to the Russian team M.Medialis!
Your mottos number 3 and 4 are pretty good. Wikiquote can come up with a lot, maybe we can tweak one of those ... /aloysius 1 person has voted this message useful |
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