Quique Diglot Senior Member Spain cronopios.net/Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4680 days ago 183 posts - 313 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: French, German
| Message 73 of 902 05 December 2012 at 9:54am | IP Logged |
liammcg wrote:
Brun, can you put me down for the Romance team also? I'll be taking
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I started studying French last week, so I'd like to sign up for this team as well.
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Sunja Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6083 days ago 2020 posts - 2295 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Mandarin
| Message 74 of 902 05 December 2012 at 10:04am | IP Logged |
Go teams!!
I won't be joining the Japanese team this year but I'll be watching and sighing wistfully from the sidelines. ( p_q)
I'll continue French but I don't expect to get far because I'll be taking an online course to prepare me for a new job in 2013. The course will take me about a year to complete. I really like the momentum of TAC and I think it will help me in my studies! So I'd be happy to join the German team and offer support. And I'll try to come in as often as I can.
edit: I'll just change the name of my current log.
Edited by Sunja on 05 December 2012 at 10:07am
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Vegemighty Groupie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4486 days ago 45 posts - 67 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin
| Message 75 of 902 05 December 2012 at 10:14am | IP Logged |
I've never done a TAC before. I'll participate this year if you'll let me. I'll be continuing my Mandarin study,
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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 76 of 902 05 December 2012 at 10:20am | IP Logged |
Brun Ugle: I can't join four teams, that would not be doable, and I have decided I am not
joining a Hebrew team because I haven't started studying it yet. If there is a Celtic
team to be I will join that as a secondary member, but otherwise I am part of the Russian
team. I doubt I will join a Scandinavian team, but if that comes to fruition I will check
some of the logs and post occasionally, but I do that with any log I find worth the time.
I expect that my participation in the Russian team will be demanding.
Edited by tarvos on 05 December 2012 at 10:21am
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Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6618 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish
| Message 77 of 902 05 December 2012 at 10:35am | IP Logged |
By decree of the TAC Dictator:
liammcg and Quique:
I've put you on the Romance team.
Teango:
No problem. Cristina had already told me you would be on the Russian team.
Sunja:
Germanic team.
Vegemighty:
Asian team
tarvos:
I kind of figured you wouldn't want to do all of those. I have you down as a definite Russian team member and a possible Celtic team member.
I will post an updated list in a few days.
Edited by Brun Ugle on 05 December 2012 at 10:42am
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garyb Triglot Senior Member ScotlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5205 days ago 1468 posts - 2413 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, French Studies: Spanish
| Message 78 of 902 05 December 2012 at 11:36am | IP Logged |
Wow this came up quickly!
Due to my usual overestimation of the amount of progress I'd make towards my goals, or more accurately my underestimation of how much progress was actually needed for these goals, my TAC 2013 plan will be remarkably similar to my 2012 one:
French: advanced/semi-fluent to more advanced and more fluent. I'd say I was a low B2 a year ago, probably a high B2 now, and I'm aiming for C1.
Italian: conversational to advanced/semi-fluent, or high B1 to high B2.
Spanish: very much still a "maybe", I don't want to start it until when, or more likely if, I reach the above goals.
Which means I'll still be a Romantic ;)
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Julie Heptaglot Senior Member PolandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6901 days ago 1251 posts - 1733 votes 5 sounds Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, GermanC2, SpanishB2, Dutch, Swedish, French
| Message 79 of 902 05 December 2012 at 12:14pm | IP Logged |
I've never done TAC before but I hope to finally participate this year :).
The thing is I have clearly defined priorities for the first half of the year... whereas
I'm still not sure what I'm going to focus on in the second half.
My learning priorities for the first half of 2013 are (in random order):
- French (improving my passive skills to the C1 level)
- German (improving my active formal vocabulary and general interpreting skills)
- Swedish (getting to weak B1, I guess)
Which team would be the one to join? :)
Edited by Julie on 05 December 2012 at 12:21pm
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garyb Triglot Senior Member ScotlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5205 days ago 1468 posts - 2413 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, French Studies: Spanish
| Message 80 of 902 05 December 2012 at 12:15pm | IP Logged |
Spanky wrote:
Would anyone have an interest in forming a team of French learners who are prepared to commit on a reasonably regular basis to participation in a log to which team members bring forward some minor new thing of a super short, super practical nature for the group’s benefit, consideration, response or discussion. Perhaps even little spot quizzes - with the answer either spaced down a bit within the same post or to be posted in a subsequent post by whoever suggested the quiz. All with the dual purpose of learning and also keeping one honest by at least a squib of French on a regular basis.
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It's a nice idea but I'm not fully convinced. Too much risk of "blind leading the blind", especially considering how awful most of the written French I see on this forum is (and I'm sure this includes some of my own past contributions!). Even advanced learners get quite basic things wrong quite often (again including myself!). Also it would have similar problems to a language class - people who are supposedly at the same level as each other often have quite different mixtures of knowledge, strengths, and weaknesses. I do like the idea of combining links to useful resources, since there is a lot of info on here that's great but spread around and hard to find, but I think there would be better places for that, perhaps the wiki. Searching through a long forum thread to find information is no fun.
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