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| slidemasterx Pentaglot Newbie Philippines Joined 5883 days ago 37 posts - 42 votes Speaks: English, Tagalog, Cebuano*, Spanish, DutchC1 Studies: Portuguese, French | Message 25 of 99 08 October 2012 at 6:17pm | IP Logged | ||
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Course: French with ease
Estimated Start Date: November 1 Prior experience with this language: none Any outside resources you might use: none Why you chose this language: I wanted to learn thai and korean and I have had success learning Spanish, dutch and portuguese with a dutch base. I don't want to learn thai and korean using another method so I'm learning french first to be able to access those languages. Personal Predictions: I plan to do 2 assimil lessons per day so the book should take me a little more than a month. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5007 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes  Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 26 of 99 08 October 2012 at 8:27pm | IP Logged | ||
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Kanewai, would you put the list of participants on the first page, please? I am curious
to see which assimils will be the most popular for the challenge and whether I am the only one with my choice. :-) (I hope I'm not the only curious one, that would look quite stupid :-D ) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 songlines Pro Member Canada flickr.com/photos/cp Joined 5207 days ago 729 posts - 1056 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French Personal Language Map | Message 27 of 99 08 October 2012 at 8:32pm | IP Logged | ||
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The Assimil Experiment
Course: Italian with Ease. (Alternatively - and less likely- may choose German with Ease, see note below.) Estimated Start Date: November 5, 2012. Prior experience with this language: Call me an absolute beginner. Over a year ago, I tried a couple of lessons from a library course (I think it was Just Listen 'n Learn Italian), but that's it. Any outside resources you might use: Will stick with Assimil as a course for the first three months. Hope to re-acquaint myself with some classics of Italian cinema just to get more exposure to the language too. Why you chose this language: I hope to travel to Italy next year, possibly in February, so it'll be a short three-month Assimil experiment to begin with. If my travel plans change - Berlin is another possibility, perhaps during the Berlin Film Festival (though winter won't be the best time to visit Germany!), then I may choose German instead. Will make my decision in a few weeks. Hopes and goals, rather than predictions: Well, I hope I'll have more progress with Assimil Italian than I've had with Assimil French. Am looking forward to tackling something from scratch; we'll see how it goes. I do want to finish my Assimil French (having dropped and picked it up several times already, I'm still not far into the second wave), so am a bit concerned about doing both concurrently. Will try a one-month push with French before November 5. So my track record with daily Assimil work hasn't been great, but I'll aim for at least 30 minutes of Assimil Italian, six days a week. Edited by songlines on 08 October 2012 at 8:38pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6595 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 28 of 99 08 October 2012 at 8:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4887 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 29 of 99 08 October 2012 at 9:54pm | IP Logged | ||
Done. And we are all curious ones - it's an impressive spread! 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6595 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 30 of 99 08 October 2012 at 10:04pm | IP Logged | ||
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Russian and French seem to be the most common ones.
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| jingwumaster Newbie United States Joined 4668 days ago 33 posts - 46 votes Speaks: English* | Message 31 of 99 08 October 2012 at 10:34pm | IP Logged | ||
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The Assimil Experiment
Course: Either Spanish or Mandarin with ease, haven't decided which yet, but probably Spanish (run into hindi speakers here and there and was considering it but there isn't an English edition of assimil's hindi book) Estimated Start Date: November 1st Prior experience with this language: Practiced pronunciation over the last couple of years but never actually studied vocabulary or grammar. I'm definitely not even an A1 in the language. Any outside resources you might use: I might supplement it with Madrigal's Magic Key to Spanish and Pimsleur/Thomas for when I'm on the road or out-and-about Also passive exposure like listening to the radio in Spanish and possibly films and music. Of course, when I feel up to it, trying to speak with native speakers. Why you chose this language: Because many people in the states speak Spanish and I would like to be able to communicate with them in their mother tongue. Hopes and goals, rather than predictions: To achieve B1 lvl for listening and reading, and at least an A2 lvl for speaking within six months. I'm a realistic person and I think that is possible given six months of Spanish study. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Laurae Diglot Groupie Germany Joined 5036 days ago 51 posts - 67 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Dutch | Message 32 of 99 09 October 2012 at 12:12pm | IP Logged | ||
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Course: Italian with Ease
Estimated Start Date: November 1st Prior experience with this language: I've completed 30 hours of beginner classes at A1.1 with the Italian Cultural Insitiute. Outside the classes I've just revised the vocabularly and grammar I've learned, so I guess that might bring me to 50-60 hours learning in total. Any outside resources you might use: I might use to same resources as I used to supplement the above course, Hodder's 'Italian Grammar Made Easy' and my Oxford pocket dictionary. I'll also try to watch an Italian movie or TV programme each week. Why you chose this language: I'm interested in travelling in Italy. Plus, having utterly failed to develop an interest in rekindling my school French, I decided that I would use it to help me learn Italian. Personal Predictions: I've never used Assimil before so I'm interested to see how I perceive it. To be honest, I'm usually really impatient with audio courses (Michel Thomas, as well as general accompaniment CDS), so it's just as well I have this experiement to encourage me. Based on what's I've read regarding Assimil, I hope to achieve a low B1 in spoken ability. Conversation/speaking is my weakest area in language acquisition, so I will be delighted if this occurs/ I'll probably manage to study for 30 minutes five or six times per week, and will allow myself six months to complete the course. Other languages: As I mentioned, I think my knowledge of French (A2/B1) will help, however I'm currently learning German at level C1 so this might hinder my progress/time allocated to Assimil Italian. I'm not fearful of language interference however. Edited by Laurae on 09 October 2012 at 1:12pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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