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Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6606 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish
| Message 9 of 64 13 December 2011 at 4:05pm | IP Logged |
Aw, amazing! Pity I can't participate :P
The Dialang test for Finnish is goood:)
also, I collected some awesome resources in this post and I'm here to help anyone<3 like also with finding resources, especially audiobooks and music.
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| WingSuet Triglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 5360 days ago 169 posts - 211 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, German Studies: Cantonese
| Message 10 of 64 13 December 2011 at 4:19pm | IP Logged |
That sounds like so much fun! And Finnish is a langaguge I've been kinda interested in. However, I don't think I will have enough time for Finnish studies as I will be studying in Hong Kong by then, learning both Cantonese and Mandarin as well as studying other subjects. I will definitely think about it though! When do we need to decide? Also, to me 45 hours in one month sounds like a lot, especially for us who study or work and who study other languages as well. Is it possible to decrease the amount to at least 1 hour a day?
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| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5390 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian
| Message 11 of 64 13 December 2011 at 4:25pm | IP Logged |
Serpent, what can you tell us about standard language vs. spoken language?
WingSuet wrote:
Also, to me 45 hours in one month sounds like a lot, especially for us who study or work and who study other languages as well. Is it possible to decrease the amount to at least 1 hour a day? |
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I think 45 hours is a balance between 1 hour a day, which wouldn't likely yield very satisfactory results and wouldn't allow anyone to do more on days when they happen to have more time, and 2 hours, which starts to be too much. Basically, it's an hour a day most days, plus some extra time on the weekends if you're going to meet a tutor or partner. I don't even know if I can do that much on regular days, but I do expect to do more on weekends, and I'd hate to find that I could devote more time and not be able to!
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| leosmith Senior Member United States Joined 6559 days ago 2365 posts - 3804 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Tagalog
| Message 12 of 64 13 December 2011 at 4:57pm | IP Logged |
Sounds interesting. Who is doing what?
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| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7165 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish
| Message 13 of 64 13 December 2011 at 5:15pm | IP Logged |
Sprachprofi wrote:
So, crazy or awesome? You decide. |
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How about interesting?
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| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5390 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian
| Message 14 of 64 13 December 2011 at 5:38pm | IP Logged |
Chung wrote:
Sprachprofi wrote:
So, crazy or awesome? You decide. |
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How about interesting? |
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That would negate any mention of awesome, and I'm not sure I'd be ready to go that far.
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| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6479 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 15 of 64 13 December 2011 at 5:47pm | IP Logged |
leosmith wrote:
Sounds interesting. Who is doing what? |
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Everyone does what they think is best. I'll use Assimil, Anki, possibly Knuckles in
Chinaland...
By the way, I tried to send you a private message and your forum mailbox is full.
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| H.Computatralis Triglot Senior Member Poland Joined 6313 days ago 130 posts - 210 votes Speaks: Polish*, French, English Studies: German, Spanish, Latin
| Message 16 of 64 13 December 2011 at 9:02pm | IP Logged |
Very interesting challenge. In fact, you got me so interested that I went on to read the Wikipedia article on Finish, although I will not participate as I don't want to get distracted from my current target languages.
One thing though, I think that 45 hours is not enough to really demonstrate a significant difference between methods. Assuming everyone starts from scratch then everyone should still pretty much be at A1 level. If you did, say, 150 hours over 3 months then perhaps you could make a comparison.
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