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Decided on 6WC main language for May yet?
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Mae
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Message 65 of 185

19 April 2012 at 9:19pm | IP Logged

geoffw wrote:

Good luck, Mae (and everyone else)!

Thank you! I'm starting from scratch :-)
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jdmoncada
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20 April 2012 at 12:40am | IP Logged

Solfrid Cristin wrote:

Send me a PM if there is anything I can do to help.

This question wasn't directed at me, but do you get your PMs? I sent one to you a few days ago with no answer. It's not the website misbehaving, is it? (I'm trying to assume the best instead of thinking you ignored me.)
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Message 67 of 185

20 April 2012 at 7:40am | IP Logged

No, I got your question, I am just still trying to figure out whether I have an answer :-)
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Message 68 of 185

20 April 2012 at 12:26pm | IP Logged

I'm matching the superchallenge and doing Japanese.
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Message 69 of 185

20 April 2012 at 11:19pm | IP Logged

espejismo wrote:

...If we actually decide to go there, then I will do Finnish for this challenge...

Ok, I feel compelled to share this.
In the past 24 hours, Fate came up with funny ways of drawing my attention to Finnish. First, I found out that the author I really liked was also a translator from Finnish. Second, I was watching an Argentinian film, and one of the characters had a German poster of an Aki Kaurismäki film, which I was able to recognize because it was one of the two Finnish films that I had seen. Third, the guy who asked me for directions on the subway turned out to be "from Helsinki, in Finland, it's in Northern Europe," and I was like "yes, I might be going there this August." I don't think I have ever spoken to a Fin before, at least not to my knowledge. And to top it all off, when I got out of the subway, I realized that a Marimekko store popped up a block away from my building. :) Weird.
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sofiapofia
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Message 70 of 185

21 April 2012 at 5:52pm | IP Logged

espejismo wrote:

...If we actually decide to go there, then I will
do Finnish for this challenge...

Ok, I feel compelled to share this.
In the past 24 hours, Fate came up with funny ways of drawing my attention to Finnish.
First, I found out that the author I really liked was also a translator from Finnish.
Second, I was watching an Argentinian film, and one of the characters had a German
poster of an Aki Kaurismäki film, which I was able to recognize because it was one of
the two Finnish films that I had seen. Third, the guy who asked me for directions on
the subway turned out to be "from Helsinki, in Finland, it's in Northern Europe," and I
was like "yes, I might be going there this August." I don't think I have ever spoken to
a Fin before, at least not to my knowledge. And to top it all off, when I got out of
the subway, I realized that a Marimekko store popped up a block away from my building.
:) Weird.

It's Finnish then! You are seeing enough signs for it :)
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Sprachprofi
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Message 71 of 185

21 April 2012 at 6:13pm | IP Logged

I've settled on Indonesian. I shall use the book "Lehrbuch der Indonesischen Sprache",
which uses the translation method. On ca. 150 pages there is lots of vocabulary (->
Anki!) and lots of exercises and I really want to see where that will lead me... the
exercises at the end of the book are taken from newspapers and I would love to be able to
read Indonesian newspapers at the end of this 6 week challenge! ;-)
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Message 72 of 185

21 April 2012 at 7:57pm | IP Logged

EDIT: Bah! I posted my thoughts about the super challenge here! I will still be studying French as my main language for the 6wc. Other thoughts have been moved to the right thread.

Edited by Jeffers on 21 April 2012 at 7:59pm

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