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| 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 9 of 96 07 January 2012 at 1:20pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Teango!
I'm always reading your logs with great enthusiasm and this one will not be an exception. And whatever those new methods are, yes I'm also really curious ... And I certainly hope you'll do well with your CELTA project! I'm sure you'll be a great asset to any future advanced students of English with you're creative use of a wide range of vocabulary. And since Irish is one of those languages that I've never had a go at myself, it will be interesting to read about your Gaelic adventure as well. I notice you have the same goals for Russian as I do, but since you're ahead of me I need to put in a lot of more work to get there. Best of luck! /aloysius 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 10 of 96 07 January 2012 at 2:52pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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@aloysius
Thanks cosmo-comrade. :) I'm really looking forward to starting up my studies again - just 12 days left to go before I can start. At the moment, any spare time I have will be put religiously into preparing for an exam I have on 18th January; after that, however, it's time to galvanize and push the button! >.< 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
 meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5965 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map | Message 11 of 96 08 January 2012 at 4:46am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I meant to wish you luck with your latest project, but I've been spending waaaaaay too much time on my own. I'm glad I have no exams. I'm considering CELTA training, too, if and when I can manage it.
I hope it's not too confusing for you to be a high-flying spacecraft and a lowly little snail at the same time! Little Uli must return to us when he's able. In the meantime, you have a great team in orbit with you! Edited by meramarina on 08 January 2012 at 4:47am 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 12 of 96 08 January 2012 at 10:45am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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@meramarina
Thanks...or rather...dzięki (Polish for "thanks" I hope). :) Uli is currently undergoing cosmonaut training, as there was concern over whether his astroshell could withstand the g-force of launch and reentry. You'll be glad to hear, however, that we have now kitted him out in a special little suit and helmet constructed from the foil of Russian chocolate bars with multilingual wrappers, so it won't be too long before he joins a long line of luminaries as the first mollusk in space! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| 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 13 of 96 17 January 2012 at 11:04pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Hi, how are you doing, pal? How are your studies going?
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| 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 14 of 96 25 January 2012 at 6:45pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
I frequently learn new English vocabulary from reading your posts. Now it happened again! Whatever those projects are, hope you're enjoying most of them and are having fun. And that you're able to sometimes sneak down to the Sputnik Space Center to overlook this exciting work in progress. /aloysius, soon to start his Finnish 6wc 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 15 of 96 26 January 2012 at 10:30pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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"Ready for my first test flight..."
I'm finally free of exams and other key preparations, and poised to embark on a whole new parade of crazy language projects to get the creative juices flowing in 2012! I'll be balancing this with other projects and part-time work, so I know the road ahead will be far from easy. However, if I can settle into a steady routine and avoid distractions, the next 3 months should prove very interesting... First of all, I'd like to apologise to my team cosmo-comrades. I've been virtually so run off my feet this month that I'm probably far behind on all the recent forum news and any specific developments within our team (e.g. follow-up Skype meetings). And it looks like our team numbers have almost doubled in my absence too - I've already lost count (lol). So a big welcome to all new members of Team Sputnik - добро пожаловать на борт!! It's also great to see so much initial enthusiasm bubbling forth for Russian, German and Irish in the TAC this year, with several plots of blossoming blogs out there pushing their way up like snowdrops through the late winter frost with renewed and encouraging vitality. With all that's going on, I can't help but feel that this year is really going to reveal some amazing progress by its conclusion. So now swiftly on to my language goals and what I hope to busy myself with in any spare time over the next 3 months...  Project 1: Russian
I aim to actively watch films with the aid of some software I wrote last year called Subento, and make a note of any progress in my Russian abilities along the way, particularly in terms of overal listening comprehension and vocabulary. My ideal would be to watch a new film with Subento at the end of every working day (i.e. Monday to Friday), but this will largely depend on being able to get hold of enough suitable and interesting titles. I already have a reasonable-sized library of Russian dvds, so this is an excellent head start. Estimated levels in Russian at the start of this experiment (taking into consideration that I've been largely inactive for several months): Listening: B1; Reading: B1+; Speaking: A2+; Writing: A2  Project 2: German
The aim here is much the same as in experiment 1, except I'll be starting with a higher level of vocabulary recognition and overall listening comprehension (approx. B2). By comparing any progress in German with my progress in Russian, I hope to develop a clearer picture of how initial comprehension levels and familiarity with a language can impact on my overall performance and progress with Subento across 3 months. Estimated levels in German at the start of this experiment (again taking into consideration that I've been largely inactive for 1-2 years): Listening: B2; Reading: B2; Speaking: B1+; Writing: B1  Project 3: Irish
I joined the Líofa Campaign last year, along with another 1300 potential learners, as a public commitment to try and reach fluency in Irish by 2015 ("líofa" incidentally means "fluent" in Irish). So now there's no more excuse for resting on my laurels, and I'm committed to turning this dream into a reality within the next 3 years. As Irish language films are few and far between for the purposes of testing Subento, I've decided instead to try and review my complete set of Buntús Cainte books and accompanying CDs over the next few months. The full course comprises 195 fun and quirky lessons and 3 CDs of audio, and I'll be using study-and-click as my only method to study these texts. The idea here is to acquire a solid foundation of passive Irish vocabulary on which to build subsequently 3 months later using other Irish multimedia resources and techniques. Another goal is to see how study-and-click performs over a longer sustained period of time, given shorter bursts of study with a beginner-intermediate course, and then compare my findings with the data gathered from briefer experiments in 2010 with Spanish and Swedish. Despite having amassed an impressive cache of Irish resources, and even being half-Irish myself, I sadly know very little of my heritage language, and estimate all of my skills as lying a hair's breadth away from that of a total beginner. @Solfrid Cristin Hooray - I'm back, I'm back! I hope I didn't miss too much whilst I was away and that you got lots and lots of Russian study done (*wink and a nod*). Now it's time for this tardy team member to don some winter thermals, locate a roll of kitchen tinfoil to make a language learning hat out of, and go from 0 to hypersonic without waking the neighbours. :) @Aloysius Ahh...glad to be of service with the odd sporting reference. ;) I'm looking forward to following your progress in Finnish over the next month, and am secretly (well, it's hardly a secret now I've said it) totally jealous. It was really hard to put my tempting new "Finnisch ohne Mühe" Assimil course out of site, and not jump into the challenge feet first with you guys too. However, I've got some interesting language projects to follow which will hopefully make up for this over the coming months. Edited by Teango on 10 February 2012 at 2:27pm 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 16 of 96 26 January 2012 at 10:53pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Considering how I haven't really spoken German for well over a year now, I've decided to be as brutally honest as possible about my current language skills, and have therefore relegated my profile status for German from "basic (speaking) fluency" back down to "intermediate" whilst I wait to activate it again. The same goes for downgrading my Spanish from "intermediate" to "beginner", which I regretably haven't touched since my short experiment in the summer of 2010. So once again I'm a monolingual looking longingly towards the far-off polyglot horizon, but have no doubt, I still aim to hold that triglot belt high by the end of the year! ;)
Update (9th May): Bowing to continued pressure from friends that I'm being way too hard on myself, and given that I've started revisiting German since April, I'm returning my status for German to "Speaks". I'm still very rusty of course, but to be fair, I guess I'm also well within the definition given on the forum for basic fluency too: "you understand at least 80% of a regular newspaper in your target language and can hold regular conversations about any topic, understanding what people say and getting your point across". Edited by Teango on 09 May 2012 at 1:24am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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