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November 6 Week Challenge | ||
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| agantik Triglot Senior Member France Joined 4635 days ago 217 posts - 335 votes  Speaks: French*, English, Italian Studies: German, Norwegian | Message 17 of 80 22 October 2012 at 4:00pm | IP Logged | ||
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I do not wish to register on Twitter, but I will definitely join in with Italian. Starting a log has been on my list of
priorities for a few weeks so I won't have any excuse now with the 6 w challenge and the Assimil experiment in which I registered for Norwegian :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| doviende Diglot Senior Member Canada languagefixatio Joined 5986 days ago 533 posts - 1245 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Hindi, Swedish, Portuguese | Message 18 of 80 22 October 2012 at 5:06pm | IP Logged | ||
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After talking with some forum members about languages, I decided I need to work less
overtime at work, and spend more time learning a language. For the 6WC, I'll be working on Portuguese, mainly the Brazilian variety. I have no prior experience with any sort of Portuguese, but I have spent a fair amount of time learning to read in Spanish, so I imagine that will give me a pretty significant boost. My plan will be fairly similar to how I learned German, Swedish, and Dutch, which is as follows: 1) browse through some textbook chapters from things like "Teach Yourself" or various grammar guides, just to see what sorts of structures exist in the language. Total time: probably less than 5 hours. No focus on memorizing at all. 2) straight up L-R with Portuguese text and Portuguese audio. Probably no dictionary usage at all. I imagine my current mediocre knowledge of Spanish will carry me right through. 3) live conversation, whenever I feel up to it. I imagine this will start happening in week 5 or 6. It's not too hard to find Brazilians here in Vancouver, and I also live 2 blocks away from the Portuguese Club of Vancouver. I have one co-worker who speaks continental Portuguese as well. I plan to put in a pretty good effort on this...probably around 10hrs per week, but I hope I can squeeze more in. We'll just have to see what happens :) 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Marikki Tetraglot Senior Member Finland Joined 5495 days ago 130 posts - 210 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, Spanish, Swedish Studies: German | Message 19 of 80 22 October 2012 at 5:59pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'll try to learn German using LWT.
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| Takato Tetraglot Senior Member HungaryRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5048 days ago 249 posts - 276 votes Speaks: Hungarian*, EnglishB2, GermanB2, Japanese | Message 20 of 80 22 October 2012 at 7:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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I've just registered for learning Japanese. This time I'll try to learn each day. There's no way back now.
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| Bbcatcher 08 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4418 days ago 130 posts - 154 votes Speaks: English*, Latin Studies: Russian, Mandarin, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Serbo-Croatian, Hungarian | Message 21 of 80 22 October 2012 at 8:58pm | IP Logged | ||
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I am a little confused. Are we allowed to do any language?
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| fabriciocarraro Hexaglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Brazil russoparabrasileirosRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4715 days ago 989 posts - 1454 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishB2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, French Studies: Dutch, German, Japanese | Message 22 of 80 22 October 2012 at 9:12pm | IP Logged | ||
Yes! Why not? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Bbcatcher 08 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4418 days ago 130 posts - 154 votes Speaks: English*, Latin Studies: Russian, Mandarin, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Serbo-Croatian, Hungarian | Message 23 of 80 22 October 2012 at 9:26pm | IP Logged | ||
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Just making sure. Sounds fun.
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| doviende Diglot Senior Member Canada languagefixatio Joined 5986 days ago 533 posts - 1245 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Hindi, Swedish, Portuguese | Message 24 of 80 22 October 2012 at 9:28pm | IP Logged | ||
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Check the first post in this thread and you'll see the instruction page. Basically, we're
choosing languages that we have beginner skill in, and focusing on that for 6 weeks to try to bring it up to something better. For this challenge we're not choosing something that we're already pretty good at, but otherwise that's the only "restriction". 1 person has voted this message useful |
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