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amyhere
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 Message 33 of 44
13 January 2014 at 7:49pm | IP Logged 
I know I'm very late compared to everyone else but this sounds like a great way to work on my "chatty"
French so as I'm doing the 6WC anyway next month, my goal is to do 20 French dialogues before the 4th of
March (that's when everyone else is finishing, right?).

Edit: Actually I'll also do 5 Finnish conversations before the 31st of January as I'll be in Finland during this
time!

Edited by amyhere on 13 January 2014 at 7:52pm

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 Message 34 of 44
13 January 2014 at 8:03pm | IP Logged 
Alright, amyhere! Good luck with your dialogues, I think you can do it!
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 Message 35 of 44
19 January 2014 at 5:17pm | IP Logged 
04 Norwegian dialogues out of 30
04 French dialogues out of 30
04 Georgian dialogues out of 30
03 Chinese dialogue out of 10

Over 10% is done. One month and a half to go. Today I did one dialogue for French, one
for Chinese and one for Georgian. I'm starting to record these dialogues, even though it
doesn't sound so natural to have the same person read both sentences. I'm getting good
feedback.
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Phoenix23
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 Message 36 of 44
19 January 2014 at 8:55pm | IP Logged 
kujichagulia wrote:


* An "island" is a speech or a collection of statements a person can use when having a
conversation in a foreign language. The concept comes from Boris Shekhtman's excellent
book, How to Improve Your Foreign Language Immediately.


Thanks for the book recommendation, getting hold of it now.
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Jeffers
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 Message 37 of 44
20 January 2014 at 1:09pm | IP Logged 
On a different website for Hindi learners, someone studying Hindi wrote her own exercises for each chapter of Teach Yourself Hindi, making an effort to use as much of the grammar and vocabulary covered so far in the textbook. She posted her exercises to the discussion forums, and a bunch of us helped her to correct them. It was a great boost to her learning, and now (about 4 years later) she is reading some pretty advanced Hindi novels. All this in the middle of nowhere in the USA, without a Hindi speaker anywhere to be found.
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 Message 38 of 44
27 January 2014 at 7:44pm | IP Logged 
05 Norwegian dialogues out of 30
04 French dialogues out of 30
04 Georgian dialogues out of 30
03 Chinese dialogue out of 10
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chiagnology
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 Message 39 of 44
15 February 2014 at 4:02am | IP Logged 
is this challenge still ongoing?

I'd like to commit myself to writing at least one short English dialog x day and also one very short German dialog x day (a basic A1-A2 level dialogue)

so, at the end of march, I will have done about
30 English dialogues
30 (short) German dialogues (it' more accurate to say 30 4-lines dialogues)




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 Message 40 of 44
15 February 2014 at 11:55pm | IP Logged 
No problem, go ahead!

I'm no way near finishing my dialogue. The fact is, I didn't manage to make this dialogue
writing part of my routine. I'll have to boost up in this final month if I want to to
least accomplish the site for one of the languages.


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