|
 |
TAC 2013 MIR Russian TEAM THREAD | ||
Share with:
| ||
 Language Learning Forum : Language Learning Log |  | |
| 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 113 of 586 12 December 2012 at 6:49am | IP Logged | |||||
I checked my mailbox and it clearly said "Teango, You have 75 Private Messages, you can receive another 25 out of 100", so your PM should have gone through fine. All the same, I thought it might be still worth clearing up a bit of space, and so removed and made a backup copy of my last 20 messages. Then I received this message on the last use of the delete function (you'll probably recognise its common footprint on the forum these days): "Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server error '80004005' Timeout expired /forum/includes/pm_check_inc.asp, line 18" When I eventually found the way back to my inbox, everything had disappeared. Now it says that all my favourite messages that I'd saved in my inbox over the last 3 years have been wiped forever! :'( @Cristina My inbox is completely empty now and says "Teango, You have 0 Private Messages, you can receive another 100 out of 100", so you can try sending that PM again. Fingers crossed this time... @Moderators Can you do anything about this? I'd like to have a copy of those remaining PMs if possible. Edited by Teango on 12 December 2012 at 6:52am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5332 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 114 of 586 12 December 2012 at 7:11am | IP Logged | |||||
|
@ Teango: i feel your pain. Almost the same thing happened to me the the other day, and the mod said there
was nothing they could do. I was devastated. I looked if any of my messages to you were still in my out box, but there was none. If you could send me anything you have sent me I would be very happy. I'll send the e-mail again. I just need to write it again, as it has also disappeared from the &@/?;&@ system ... Edited by Solfrid Cristin on 12 December 2012 at 7:29am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| 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 115 of 586 12 December 2012 at 8:21am | IP Logged | |||||
|
It looks like the name MIR is official, so I've changed it on the team roster.
Your team is indeed an inspiration to everyone. I've seen a lot of other teams discussing Skype and otherwise emulating you. It seems like teams are already working on getting to know each other and are becoming tight-knit groups. I predict that this year's TAC will have a lower percentage of drop-outs because of that. I think Sputnik managed to keep about half of its members rather than the usual quarter. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| LanguageSponge Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5764 days ago 1197 posts - 1487 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Welsh, Russian, Japanese, Slovenian, Greek, Italian | Message 116 of 586 12 December 2012 at 9:46am | IP Logged | |||||
|
I think Team MIR is indeed official, Brun. I already love the name, it means and
signifies so many different things. As for the Little Challenges, I am slowly adding more and more to the list. I want to have a large part of it done before the end of this working week if only because the Christmas rush will probably begin in earnest for most of us soon if it hasn't begun already. I won't have half as much to do concerning Christmas this year - all we have is a Christmas Party for the kids and a Staff Party for the teachers - so I'll still be here. I want to start paying more attention to The Asian Team now though as our thread's recently started up. @ Solfrid Cristin - thank you for adding German to my little list on Team MIR's front page. Also I'm glad you remembered to add Greek! :) Also what is going on with the Private Message system? I too have had messages I've saved for years wiped from the system - and messages I've kept for years concerning Greek too so I'm really upset about that :( 1 person has 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 117 of 586 12 December 2012 at 9:48am | IP Logged | |||||
|
By the way, you can add this http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?
TID=30913&PN=1 link for my log to the first post :) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Emme Triglot Senior Member Italy Joined 5345 days ago 980 posts - 1594 votes Speaks: Italian*, English, German Studies: Russian, Swedish, French | Message 118 of 586 12 December 2012 at 5:01pm | IP Logged | |||||
I’m a thirty-something from North-Eastern Italy. My budding passion for languages led me to studying them at University, but since I didn’t enrol in a very specialized programme like that for translators and interpreters, I ended up at a ‘Languages and Literature’ (English + German) faculty where, contrary to my plans, I fell in love with literature. So I have a smattering of linguistics, philology, language didactics etc. but the emphasis of my studies was actually on literature. I’m at the very early stages of Russian learning. I started from scratch at the beginning of November thanks to the Assimil experiment, so I’m one of the less advanced team members, it seems. Up until now I’ve managed to study daily, and I’ve been enjoying it so far. If I maintain the pace and go on to the active wave, I think the Assimil experiment will occupy me well into the spring or even early summer. After that I have no idea of what I’ll do, but unless I really get totally fed up with Assimil and/or Russian, I can imagine I will continue studying this fascinating language for years to come. Lack of materials is certainly not an issue, what with FSI, DLI, GLOSS, S azov, Learn Russian, Russisch Bitte, the Princeton Russian Course, the books I already own and those that I can borrow from the library. Right now Russian is the only language I’m actively studying but I usually work on a couple of languages at a time. At the moment I have my staple languages (German, Swedish, French) on the back-burner but I’m likely to start focusing on one or more of them again soon. I used to be C1 in German when I last studied it at University, but I’ve never really felt at home with the language and I’ve neglected it for far too long. I’ve been learning Swedish on my own for years now, and it’s really an act of love, as I have no practical use for it. My French suffers from the huge difference between my poor active skills and my decent passive ones. Being a native speaker of Italian I get most of those passive skills for free and having studied with a grammar- and drill-light method like French with Ease hasn't really helped much on that front. Finally, my passive English skills are more or less where I want them to be, but I’ve noticed that my writing and speaking are getting rustier, so they could use some polishing. Then there’s Japanese, a language I’ve dabbled in in the past without going anywhere: I know, I know, Japanese is not the kind of language you can dabble in and expect to get far, but who knows, maybe 2013 will be the year I start studying it in earnest. I see two main obstacles on my way to TAC 2013 (apart from real life, of course): first, my above-mentioned love of literature. Unfortunately studying languages and reading novels are often mutually exclusive, in that I usually pass from months devoted to one activity to months devoted to the other but rarely I do both at the same time. The only consolation is that I rarely read in Italian. Second, I am prone to bouts of wanderlust and moreover I tend to get bored fairly easily, so I’m likely to change my focus language every couple of months. I prefer not to make any plans, but to follow the spur of the moment. Sometimes great things comes when you least expect them: if last December someone had told me I would be learning Russian by the end of 2012 I would have thought they were joking. Yet, here I am, and happy to share this journey with you!
PS. The links I mentioned can go into the resources bank, though I’m afraid they may be useful only for the beginners among us. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| mrwarper Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Spain forum_posts.asp?TID=Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5224 days ago 1493 posts - 2500 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2 Studies: German, Russian, Japanese | Message 119 of 586 12 December 2012 at 6:00pm | IP Logged | |||||
|
OK, I've been delaying this too long -- let's add a bit to that resources bank (tarvos!)
Self-study guide to learning Russian online: Russian for everyone <http://www.study-languages-online.com/index.html> An interactive online Russian grammar <http://www.alphadictionary.com/rusgrammar/> MasterRussian: Forum + course <http://masterrussian.com/> Russian Lessons: <http://myrussianteacher.org/russian-lessons.html> Philosophical disquisitions (Russkaja latinica: A proposal for Russian transliteration): <http://centrolit.kulichki.net/centrolit/rl/> +Русские книги -Text, FB2 and others: *Флибуста | Книжное братство <http://flibusta.net/> *Либрусек | Много книг <http://lib.rus.ec/> *Lib.Ru: Библиотека Максима Мошкова <http://www.lib.ru/> *Lib.ru: "Классика" <http://az.lib.ru/> -Аудиокниги *аудиокниги скачать бесплатно - аудио книги <http://a-knigi.ru/> *Аудиокниги <http://audiobooks.webtalk.ru/> *Книги скачать бесплатно. Библиотека - бесплатные аудиокниги онлайн <http://bibe.ru/> *Index of ;) <http://radioteatr.arjlover.net/> *Index of ;) <http://audio.arjlover.net/audio/> *Скачать аудиокниги бесплатно на mp3 | Бесплатные аудиокниги Акунин, Белянин, Кинг, Зеланд, Стругацкие, Гарри Поттер и Война миров <http://www.trava.in/> -Assorted audioknigi links: *Friends-Forum.Com » АУДИО-КНИГИ » Infanata - Лучшие книги Интернета <http://friends-forum.com/modules.php?name=EBooks> *LibriVox: Search Results <http://librivox.org/newcatalog/search_advanced.php?&stat us=complete&language=Russian&action=Search"> *Priviet.com - Russian audio book(s) <http://www.priviet.com/> *Russian Language » Ska4ka - аудиокниги на иностранных языках, аудиокниги для изучения иностранных языков <http://www.ska4ka.com/ru-audio/> I'll write something about me in my TAC'13 log so it doesn't get in the way and I don't need to repeat it in the other team logs, in a few days -- I'm always a bit hesitant to when it comes to personal stuff, sorry ;) 1 person has 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 120 of 586 12 December 2012 at 6:11pm | IP Logged | |||||
|
Thanks for the links. I'll see if I can find the time to upload them later tonight.
1 person has voted this message useful |
|  | 
Printable version
|
| Copyright 2024 FX Micheloud - All rights reserved No part of this website may be copied by any means without my written authorization. |
