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| 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 9 of 78 02 November 2012 at 9:54pm | IP Logged | |||||
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@aloysius
Thanks buddy. You can't believe how I struggled with limiting it just to 10...oh the sleepless nights...Spanish, Swedish, Italian, Aramaic, Korean and Arabic...please forgive me! @Cristina, Serpent This is what I love about this forum! I decide to study 10 languages simultaneously, and everywhere else in the world, people think I've lost my marbles; here amongst my good friends and esteemed language learning companions, it's nothing out of the ordinary. Cristina has 11 languages in her current studies/speaks list, and Serpent has 18! All I need is for Iversen to drop by and I'll feel completely at home once again... :) @Cristina On a completely unrelated note, I finally found a florist a bit further out from where I live that sells roses. They're imported all the way from Venezuela, but the downside is that each one costs $8 *ouch*, so I could only afford one for my wife on a GA's salary! I thought of your garden of beautiful roses with all the amazing varieties, and felt a sudden longing to visit Norway... Edited by Teango on 02 November 2012 at 9:57pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Kronos Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5259 days ago 186 posts - 452 votes Speaks: German*, English | Message 10 of 78 03 November 2012 at 2:59am | IP Logged | |||||
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Hi Teango, it is great to see our blithe spirit posting here again. I guess a lot of us were already afraid that you might have been washed away by the Hawaiian tide or something. ;-)
I did some experimenting with Assimil courses for altogether ten different languages earlier this year, even attempting all of them simultaneously, though only for a couple of lessons each. I found that it is relatively easy to organise all this stuff, for instance by studying them always in the same order, doing one lesson of language 1, then one lesson of language 2, and so on, this freed me from any time pressure and overly fixed schedules that I can't hold up for long. At three or four lessons a day progress is slow but steady, and I would encounter each language 2-3 times a week. I abandoned the attempt for two reasons: I felt really happy with Assimil in the beginning stage for certain languages only (Russian, Turkish, Swedish maybe), but strangely not for the Romance languages. Apart from that I feel that I require a firm grasp of 3 or 4 'core' languages first, preferably from different language groups. But devoting 10+ minutes a day to each language is a fascinating project, and it's about the same pace. I would probably do 20 minutes every other day or 30-45 minutes twice a week, but then I doubt that any given schedule or method is suited to all. Please keep us posted. Here is an interesting article (in German) on a recent experiment: A class for learning ten different languages simultaneously, all from scratch, with a single teacher, and with a lot of switching between languages quickly. Apparently the experiment was a success. 3 persons have 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 11 of 78 03 November 2012 at 10:31am | IP Logged | |||||
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@Kronos
Thanks for linking to this German article about teaching 10 languages in a lesson - now that's exactly the type of class I'd sign up for in a heartbeat right now. ;) Speaking of German and almost being carried off by the waves, I've just come back from a surf break called China Walls on the east coast. I shared pupus with a bunch of uni friends and watched the papaya-flesh-orange evening sun set into the deep blue surf, as the waves crashed around us on the rocks. Amongst our multilingual bunch, most of whom are Koreans, I also had the opportunity of chatting for half an hour in German with a girl from München, which I particularly enjoyed, as I haven't found that many other European residents on the island so far! Edited by Teango on 03 November 2012 at 10:50am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7013 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 12 of 78 03 November 2012 at 1:42pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I very rarely post on people's Language Logs, although I occasionally read some of them, but this one looks so interesting that I felt compelled to write something.
So here it is: good luck and keep us updated, I'm looking forward to seeing your results.
Doesn't look like Cristina thinks much of either of your efforts, does she? ;) Edited by patuco on 03 November 2012 at 1:44pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Kronos Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5259 days ago 186 posts - 452 votes Speaks: German*, English | Message 13 of 78 03 November 2012 at 3:19pm | IP Logged | |||||
Fantastic place, though I admit I'd like to see myself among the people up on the cliffs rather than desparately trying to steer clear of the rocks! Well, just spending a rainy Saturday afternoon in nondescript outskirts in good old Europe. What a difference. :o 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 14 of 78 03 November 2012 at 9:22pm | IP Logged | |||||
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@Kronos
Hey brah, you wen find da place! :) The waves crash perpendicular to the rocks, so you need to get the timing just right. I wussed out this time and just enjoyed the setting sun with a plate of ono poke and a cool brew instead. Edited by Teango on 03 November 2012 at 9:23pm 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 78 03 November 2012 at 9:33pm | IP Logged | |||||
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@patuco
It's an honour to have you drop in, and I'll be starting the project today. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4705 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 16 of 78 03 November 2012 at 9:54pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Hey Teango! Does Irish do that thing with an infinitive + verb particle + form of to do,
or is that unique to Breton (or maybe Welsh also has it?) I figured you might know. Thanks in advance! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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